From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN After 30 years of stonewalling, the United Kingdom government is finally considering following the lead of 91 other countries and signing the Unesco convention banning the international...
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OU vice-chancellor leaves for Unesco Sir John Daniel, vice-chancellor of the Open University, is to be assistant director general of Unesco from next spring. Sir John said it would be a “wrench” to...
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TV & radio guide - Tuesday
The Snowman (9.30 am R4). Are snowmen pagan survivals? This and other questions considered by experts in folklore, theology, philosophy … The Civil War: The Cause (10.00 am History Channel, and for...
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Latest international news
Court frees academic jailed for terrorism United States attorney general Janet Reno has freed Mazen Al-Najjar, who was jailed as a suspected terrorist in May 1997. Professor Al-Najjar was...
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Latest UK news
London's research dominance comes under threat Vice-chancellors from London universities and further education institutions have told London mayor Ken Livingstone that the capital’s position as the...
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From today's UK papers
DAILY MAIL MPs will decide tomorrow whether British scientists should be allowed to clone human embryos for research that might lead to cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's Research from...
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TV & radio guide - Monday
» Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Schubert. Random Edition (11.00 am R4). The Strand Magazine for Christmas 1897: Peter Snow consults Chris Willis of Birkbeck and others about...
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TV & radio guide - Sunday
Two Thousand Years (10.30 am ITV). Revised repeats of Melvyn Bragg’s history-of-Christianity series, first shown from April last year, reaches episode two: the second century AD. (The generally...
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TV & radio guide - Saturday
» The Sky at Night (11.55 am BBC2). Repeat from late last Sunday of programme featuring NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman on observing from space. The Real Helen Keller (1.00 C4). How much...
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China calls for increased cooperation withRussia
Chinese vice-premier Li Langqing has called for increased cooperation in higher education between China and Russia to enable the two countries to "continue to contribute to world civilisation" in the...
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Discord greets hymns for her
A York University researcher is wading in to one of the most contentious issues facing the church - are girls' voices suited to singing the Divine Office? Purists argue that while girls' voices may...
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Vauxhall closure to hit Luton
Luton University will lose "several hundred thousand pounds a year" with the closure of the Vauxhall car plant. But vice-chancellor Dai John told The THES that he is sure the local economy will...
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Welsh funding 'must rise'
Welsh higher education is facing a funding and recruitment crisis that could set it on "a spiral of decline", vice-chancellors and funding chiefs warned the Welsh Assembly this week. Universities and...
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Law fails to assure animal researchers
Scientists have expressed anger over the government's failure to protect them from animal rights extremists. Last week's Queen's Speech made no mention of measures to tackle animal rights "terrorism...
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Oxford Islamic site gets green light
People living near Magdalen College, Oxford, have failed in their High Court attempt to stop the building of an Islamic centre. A judge rejected claims that the plan, backed by £20 million from King...