PGCE 'on the brink'
Many of Britain's best teacher training institutions are "teetering on the brink" of dropping the subject, according to university administrators. The cost of running PGCE courses has risen so much...
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Colleges' declining fortunesthreaten participation goal
The government's 50 per cent participation target for higher education is in jeopardy because of a funding crisis in further education, lecturers' union leaders claimed this week, writes Tony Tysome...
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Sexism in science is targeted
Universities and science policy-makers have been told they must crack "the two-body problem" to ensure the future of physics research. Doing so would do much to help women who want careers in science...
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Failure to learn from foot-and-mouth legacy The government has failed to learn lessons from last year's outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, according to the report of an independent inquiry chaired...
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Why I... recommend letting the television cameras in
Seeing life in an Oxford college on television normally means viewing it in fictional form, but from 9pm on Sunday, viewers will be able to see the real thing for the first time on Channel 4. College...
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Policy does not add up
What maths/science 'consumers', aka school pupils, need are the basic tools, says Tony Gardiner. Given that maths and science in English schools are patently failing to deliver at age 18, there is...
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Scientific credit where it's due
J. Doyne Farmer disputes the integrity of a fellow academic's bestseller. Although Steven Wolfram's recent book, A New Kind of Science , has received an unusual level of attention in the popular...
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Research Centres Scheme
Deadline: 11/10/2002
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DNA Anniversary Awards 2003
Deadline: 17/10/2002
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Genomics Forum Competition
Deadline: 31/10/2002
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Scientific Programmes in the Physical & Engineering Sciences
Deadline: 31/10/2002
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Health Services Research project grants
Deadline: 21/10/2002
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Onians Fellowship
Deadline: 31/10/2002
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The rise of hope, and fall of utopia
Council Housing and Culture
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the debut novel of a 24-year-old writer fresh out of Cambridge: "Early in the morning, late in the...