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Female students outnumber men across the board Female university students now outnumber men across all subject areas, from engineering to medicine and law to physical sciences. New figures from...
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Why revel in birth of imperial monster?
Celebrating 'America's 400th Birthday' ignores the genocide of the continent's native people, argues Taiaiake Alfred "America's 400th Birthday", the year-long staging of the mythologies of...
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EUREKA project presents monitoring system for hazardous rail freight
Brussels, 26 Jul 2005 The EUREKA project 'Logchain Translog Safety' has developed a satellite-based system for monitoring the transportation of hazardous rail freight between Europe and Asia....
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Soas disrupted by protest over loss of two librarians
London's School of Oriental and African Studies faced severe disruption this week after the escalation of a protest about the redundancies of two specialist librarians. The school confirmed that 18...
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Embedding ethics in scientific practice
Brussels, 18 Oct 2005 As a satellite event to the World Science Forum, the meeting 'Embedding ethics in scientific practice' will take place in Budapest, Hungary, from 6 to 8 November. This event, a...
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The long and the short of it
Britain's one-year masters is proving a sticking point in the Bologna Process, but the equivalence issue is raising difficult questions about length of study for other degrees, too. Hannah Fearn...
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International cohort grows
Britain's universities are becoming increasingly dependent on overseas students, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. With 13.4 per cent of students from abroad,...
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EU and the Republic of Korea seal their agreement on GALILEO
Brussels, 11 september 2006. During the EU/South Korea summit held in Helsinki today, the two parties formally signed an agreement on co-operation on the European satellite radio navigation programme...
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China not a threat to EU and US research, Potocnik says
Brussels, October 2006 Europe and the US have nothing to fear from globalisation, and can in fact use it to their advantage, EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik told an audience at...
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Payments spark off row over sins of commission
Admissions ethics are in the spotlight after revelations that US universities recruiting abroad pay incentives to agents who sign students, a practice banned at home. Jon Marcus reports. When the...
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Ariane 5 launches two telecommunications satellites
Paris, 11 Aug 2006 On 11 August 2006, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary...
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THE Awards 2008 - part 2
Outstanding Support for disabled StudentsBrunel UniversityBrunel's Disability and Dyslexia Service set up support services for students with learning differences and for those with mental-health...
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In becoming a eunuch, I became a better man
The once exalted status of castrati helped Richard Wassersug accept the changes caused by his cancer treatment My daughter and I were talking about outing oneself - the act of disclosing one's inner...
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A universal soldier against all flu strains? Researchers seek a vaccine to target the stable M2e protein which has been common to flu viruses since the first one was isolated in 1933
Brussels, Feb 2006 One way to beat viruses is to knock them out with antiviral drugs. Another is to vaccinate against them beforehand. While this may work for some, such as measles and mumps, others...