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Afternoon naps cut risk of dying from heart attack by up to 64% Taking a siesta could significantly cut the chance of dying from a heart attack, a major study has found. Researchers who examined more...
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Oxford to follow Cambridge's lead by appointing City financier Oxford University is to follow the lead of Cambridge and appoint a City financier to manage nearly a billion pounds worth of its assets...
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Peace prize winner considers Dhaka politics Muhammad Yunus, the Nobel peace prize winner, has announced he will consider starting a new political party in response to public pressure for him to...
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Paul Instrument Fund
Deadline: 20/04/2007
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Today's news
Blair to give ?1 for every ?2 gift to universities Universities will be encouraged to build up funds of billions of pounds from former students and philanthropists under plans to be unveiled by Tony...
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SEELLD Support Research Fellowships
Deadline: 16/03/2007
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Daiwa Foundation Awards
Deadline: 31/03/2007
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Small Pilot Grants
Deadline: 01/03/2007
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Who is 2007 campus idol?
Ontario lecturers are fighting it out on TV to be top of the student charts, writes Philip Fine A television channel has passed up the charms of a usual pretty face, the star researcher, and has set...
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A special relationship that's worth fighting for
If collegiality is to survive, academic staff should strive to work with, not against, administrators, writes Linda Newman An academic friend and I were discussing how to respond to the latest hare-...
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Alison Wolf
These days, most British comment on American higher education paints it as the isles of the blessed: the best universities, the best laboratories and libraries, the best paid professors, with needs-...
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Stephen Gomez: Scroll to 'E' for education
It does not take a Nostradamus to predict the growing use of e-learning. For a number of years I have been using electronic portfolios to remotely track student learning on work placement; though it...
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Honours go for a song
Warwick University made the acclaimed British composer Michael Nyman sing for his supper before awarding him an honorary degree last week. Mr Nyman had composed a fanfare especially for the...
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Ministers know no modesty
It seems Bill Rammell, the 糖心Vlog Minister, is less attuned to his academic constituency than he is widely held to be. The House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee made him...
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Scrum for rector at Dundee
A tough battle is in prospect to determine the successor to TV personality Lorraine Kelly as rector of Dundee University. There are two candidates, neither of whom backs down in the face of...