Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to: research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this...
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World awaits answer to $400m gene question
Researchers around the world are set to announce on Monday the completion of 90 per cent of one of the most exciting projects in the history of science: the sequencing of the human genome. Costing...
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Vanguard digs deep into data at Oxford
This is the genetic coalface. If the sequencing of the human genome is charting all the rich seams and deposits of our DNA, it is in such cutting-edge institutes as the Wellcome Trust Centre for...
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Queen's Birthday honours
Knights. Anthony Atkinson, warden of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, for services to economics; Roderick MacSween, former president of the Royal College of Pathologists and chairman of the...
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National teaching fellowships scheme
The Institute for Learning and Teaching has announced the award of 20 fellowships, worth Pounds 50,000 each, jointly funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Department for...
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Eyewitness
Mexico's "perfect dictatorship" could end next month. Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa coined the phrase to describe the Institutional Revolutionary Party's (PRI) 71-year rule, which combines...
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Minsk
Alaksandr Lukashenko, president of Belarus, has told university rectors that he is putting this year's higher education entrance exams under his personal control through specially appointed monitors...
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Concepcion
Two Chilean students were arrested outside the Universidad de Concepci"n last week during protests at a reduction of up to 50 per cent in their winter vacation. On the other side of the city, police...
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One dies in police raid on campus
One student has died and others were injured as Kenyan riot police intercepted 400 students at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. The students had stormed the offices of a...
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Fury as Rio festa called off
Students at Rio de Janeiro's Pontificia Universidade Cat"lica are hopping mad over the university's decision to cancel this year's June festa. PUC rector, Father Jesus Hortal, told the daily...
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Job survey shows power of a degree
ߣߣÊÓƵn graduates in their first job now earn an average of A$32,500 (Pounds 13,000) a year - 8 per cent more than their less well-educated peers - a survey has found. Graduates also continue to...
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Foreign student tax is mooted for Africa
An initiative to revitalise Africa's struggling universities and demoralised academics through a "tax" on visiting students from the world's wealthier nations was launched in Paris last week. David...
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Student 'parliament' for Italy
Italy's first national "parliament" of 30 student delegates has taken office to work with the university ministry to review Italy's state university system. The Consiglio Nazionale Studenti...
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Sweden tackles diversity problem
Ethnic and social diversity must be improved in higher education if Sweden is to take full advantage of the possibilities offered by the multiplicity of its society, a report to education minister...
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Report reveals literacy gap
At least a quarter of adults in each of 20 countries taking part in a survey of literacy skills fell below the level needed for coping with the demands of daily life and work in a complex advanced...