An island set in a lager sea
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Paul Marginson, senior lecturer in industrial relations at the University of Warwick, has been appointed to the chair in human resource management and employment relations; George...
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Gene havoc, plant form
Reaching for the Sun - The Evolutionary Biology of Plants - The Nature of Disease in Plants
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Parting political shots
The French pride themselves on Cartesian clarity. They have been trained to turn everyday difficulties into abstract problems, and to seek solutions from the top down, as consequences of general...
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View from the Fens Windows
Roger Needham is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge millions. Tony Durham asks how he will spend them Microsoft is not the first computing...
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Give us Pounds 5 billion and we'll give back more
The CVCP aims to persuade the government that higher education is vital to wealth creation and social inclusion. Tony Tysome reports Vice-chancellors conjured scenes from Oliver Twist last week, when...
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Not just a lot of old Tosh
Christina Preston on a ground-breaking in-service training alliance between teachers and industry. Most teachers have had few first degree opportunities to learn the skills or explore the...
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The radical assault on our health
FREE RADICALS AND OXIDATIVE STRESS: ENVIRONMENT, DRUGS AND FOOD ADDITIVES.Edited by C. Rice-Evans, B. Halliwell and G. G. Lunt. Portland Press 6pp, Pounds 65.00. ISSN 0067 8694. FREE RADICALS IN...
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Grants
University of Birmingham European funds Dr G. Boons, Pounds 71,269 from the Commission (synthetic saccharides to study the immunological properties of type III group B streptoccus oligosaccharides);...
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Wisdom on a forecourt
The Gas Station in America
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Canada gets wise to science's social life
Canada lags behind most industrialised nations in recognising the crucial role of science and technology, according to a new report, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. Research and development spending,...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight, this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk European Union Fourth Research & Technological...
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NHS funds to be streamlined with `broad strokes'
The streamlining of National Health Service research money into a single funding channel, as recommended in a major report last month, will have to be a "broad brush" exercise because of the...
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Fees the only option
Students stranded by Brown's budget. FEES for students became a near certainty this week when Gordon Brown's budget failed to find any extra cash for higher education. While the Chancellor managed to...
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Cyberspace: the ethical frontier
A revolution ignores moral issues at its peril, argue Simon Rogerson and Terrell Ward Bynum. Computing technology is the most powerful and flexible technology ever devised. For this reason it is...