Lecture hours rise
Staff work harder to compensate for lack of study space, writes Tony Tysome Universities have extended the teaching day by the equivalent of nearly one and a half days a week in a bid to relieve...
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Ethical red tape is stifling us, say medical researchers NHS red tape and ethical safeguards brought in after the Alder Hey body parts scandal are stifling research into new medicines, according to...
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College of Europe Masters Thesis on The EU's Contribution to Global Governance: The Case of Global Infectious Diseases (extract)
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 Thesis presented by Oliver WIECHOCZEK for the degree of Master of European Studies at the College of Europe (Prague, June 2006) Full text [...] Abstract In an increasingly...
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World's deepest offshore wind farm almost up and running
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 Wind energy is believed to be one of the most mature renewable technologies, offering an alternative to unsustainable oil and gas. Although the technology for wind farms is...
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Dementia risk factors identified
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 Swedish-Finnish team has identified the factors associated with dementia for the first time, from a 20-year study into the effects of ageing. The team has devised a simple test...
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European Venture Market -- Potsdam, 4-6 October
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 The European Venture Market for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will be held in Potsdam, Germany between 4 and 6 October 2006, organised by Hasso Plattner...
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Nano2Life summer scientific meeting
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 On 5-7 September the European Network of Excellence Nano2Life will hold its summer scientific meeting at University College Cork in Ireland. The objective of Nano2Life is to...
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EU study finds link between middle-aged spread and colon cancer
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 Men and women who have larger waistlines may be at an increased risk of colon cancer, according to the findings of an EU-funded study. Over a six-year period, researchers in the...
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Tall tale of the internet sale
The Long Tail
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Sex, sea craft and insanity
Classic Biographies series
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Too right to redress wrongs
The Intellectuals and the Flag
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a West Indian writer: "One grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about...
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Beauty in world's oldest literature
Gilgamesh - The Literature of Ancient Sumer
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Tommy's massive leap into dataage
Colossus
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Fairweather fixers of US war machine
The Jasons