Jigsaw jackpot
An unemployed mathematician today picked up a £1 million prize for completing the world’s most complex jigsaw puzzle. Alex Selby, from Cambridge, completed the 209-piece jigsaw...
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University rector in court
Aberdeen University rector and television personality Clarissa Dickson Wright today appeared in court after pleading guilty to a speeding offence. Ms Dickson Wright, a former barrister, appeared at...
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From today's UK papers 25 October
FINANCIAL TIMES Just six years after e-mail and the internet emerged to become household worlds, the University of California at Los Angeles has launched an ongoing survey on the medium's impact on...
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Engineering for Manufacturing Programme: next generation manufacturing
Deadline: 17/11/2000
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Transitions after Fifty Programme
Deadline: 15/12/2000
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Management Accounting and Knowledge Management
Deadline: 31/01/2001
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Daily TV & radio guide - Thursday
Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Julian Pettifer in the Basque country. The Material World (4.30 R4). The mysterious single waves known as solitons, with explanation from Alan Boardman (Salford...
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Drug-busted students denied aid
Almost 7,000 of the 9 million US students who applied for federal aid for this fall are ineligible for some or all of their financial aid because of convictions for drug-related offences, according...
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Euro rectors end Serb isolation
Marija Bogdanovic, acting rector of the University of Belgrade, is due to attend this weeks' CRE/Association of European Rectors conference in Cracow, Poland. She is likely to be confirmed...
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From today's UK papers 23 October 2000
FINANCIAL TIMES Oxford University's medical research council has backed down from a potentially damaging intellectual property dispute with the University of Nairobi over joint research into a...
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Latest stories 23 October
Euro rectors end Serb isolation Marija Bogdanovic, acting rector of the University of Belgrade, is due to attend this weeks' CRE/Association of European Rectors conference in Cracow, Poland...
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Higher education appointments
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology The following have been appointed to the university's court: Payson Cha , chairman of the Mingly Corporation Ltd; William Fung , group managing...
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Higher education awards & prizes
University of Cluj, Romania Derek Ingham , professor of applied mathematics, has been awarded an honorary doctorate .
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Higher education appointments
University of Salford Michael Garrity , former head of the school of nursing and an associated dean, has been appointed dean of the faculty of health care and social work studies. Royal College of...
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Bangor opens regional business school
A school of business and regional studies combining banking, economics and business disciplines with tourism, leisure and heritage management has been opened at Bangor University by Wales's first...