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ARCHAEOLOGY- The Tomb in Ancient Egypt: Royal and Private Sepulchres from the Early Dynastic Period to the RomansBy Aidan Dodson, research fellow of archaeology and anthropology, University of...
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An action plan to boost research and innovation
Brussels, 12 October 2005 The European Commission has tabled an integrated innovation and research action plan, which calls for a major upgrade of the conditions for research and innovation in Europe...
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Makeover mania
Image is everything and universities are lining up to pay branding agencies serious money to create the right profile. But is this market-driven approach a step too far, asks Hannah Fearn
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Under that 3ft pile of quano...
Universities' property portfolios boast a range of often-forgotten treasures that are being renovated with spectacular results. Michael North reports. Mabel Wilson was bewildered by the...
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Forgotten lives, vicious streets
Fractured Cities
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ESA joins UN climate talks in Kenya
Paris, 6 November 2006 The United Nations annual summit on climate change this week in Nairobi, Kenya, seeks to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol strategy, which becomes obsolete in 2012,...
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Prior information notice for various studies relating to the Sixth Framework Programme
Brussels, 09 Apr 2003 The European Commission has published a prior information notice regarding calls for proposals for various study services, including a study and seminar on strategies for the...
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Broken pledge betrays post-92s, Driscoll says
Downing Street and senior ministers have "reneged" on a promise to give post-92 universities the lion's share of funding for applied research and knowledge-transfer work, it was claimed this week....
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Today's news
Oxford silences animal activists Oxford University served an unprecedentedly strict injunction yesterday to protect students and staff by banning animal rights activists from screaming through...
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Parliamentary reports on People Programme and Capacities Programme implementing FP7 goals for research (link)
Brussels, 2 November 2006 FINAL A6-0360/2006 16.10.2006 Type of Procedure: Consultation procedure REPORT on the proposal for a Council decision on the specific programme 'People' implementing the 7th...
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Computer-generated with soul left intact
CRAZY: The UK number one single by Gnarls Barkley The conventional wisdom is that if the pop charts ever mattered, they don't anymore. They no longer serve as a barometer of the taste and cultural...
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Exploiting whole grain to improve health
Brussels, 29 Sep 2005 The EU-funded research project HEALTHGRAIN is to identify new sources of nutritionally enhanced grain, as well as to develop methods for producing new, competitive, grain foods...
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'Trust the Young': ERC Heads look to the future
Brussels, 17 Jul 2006 In October 2002, a conference in Copenhagen posed the question, 'Do we need a European Research Council?' The answer from researchers across the EU was a resounding YES, and now...
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Reunited: vacation vocation
Tourism chief executive Richard Dickinson visits Bournemouth University where he studied as a mature student in the 1980s There are buildings everywhere. Returning, it is hard to get a handle on the...
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Today's news
University pay row threatens fee policy Universities are facing a year of pay strikes that could plunge the Government's flagship top-up fees policy into chaos. Academics are demanding at least one...