Taylor made
Science minister Ian Taylor launched a Pounds 40 million competition aimed at supporting priorities identified by the Technology Foresight initiative this week. Outline bids for research funding...
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Labour think tank calls for ministry of research
Big cuts in Britain's military research and development spending, no further moves to privatise public sector research laboratories and the creation of a ministry for research are among the key...
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Students wise up to danger of drink
An "alcohol awareness" campaign for students? This might seem a trifle unnecessary yet it is precisely what the National Union of Students and the alcohol advice group Drinkline launched this week at...
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Cancer virus identified
Kaposi's sarcoma, one of the commonest cancers in young men in the West, is almost certainly caused by a human herpes virus, scientists from the Institute of Cancer Research and University College...
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English masters courses dropped
Exeter University is to drop two taught masters courses in English after they were rated unsatisfactory by quality assessors from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The rating was...
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Blair banks on loans
The Labour Party is planning a two-stage reform of student awards and loans. The party's education team, which met academics and union leaders for a policy-shaping seminar in Oxford this week, plans...
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Trunk call
(Photograph) - Liverpool University veterinary graduate Oliver Turner on his way to finishing his swim across the English Channel. Mr Turner, aged 24, took 12 hours and 33 minutes to complete the...
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Colleges on brink of insolvency
Fifty-eight colleges are expecting to face technical insolvency according to unpublished financial forecasts received by the Further Education Funding Council in March. A further 303 colleges - more...
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A scattering of final particles
Scattering in Quantum Field Theories
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A true figure of merit
Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis
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Bifurcation for beginners
Introduction to Nonlinear Science - Stability, Instability and Chaos
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Coming to order
Order, Chaos, Order
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Creation v Discovery
Conversations on Mind, Matter and Mathematics
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Dire portents of disaster areas
Monitoring Active Volcanoes
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Divine Cook?
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