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Trainee teachers to have loans paid off About 35,000 graduates will have their loans paid off in a three-year pilot scheme to attract teachers for the shortage subjects of maths, science and modern...
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Latest research news
Obesity linked to tots’ TV The first research into television and pre-school obesity has linked excess weight to a growing practice of giving toddlers their own bedroom TVs. The study by Columbia...
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Career Awards for Research in Clinical Tropical Medicine
Deadline: 01/09/2003
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Travel Awards
Deadline: 30/07/2002
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Social Science: Responsive Programme
Deadline: 18/07/2002
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Research Grants
Deadline: 01/07/2002
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Promotion of foods to children
Deadline: 09/08/2002
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Research and Development Grants
Deadline: 30/08/2002
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The history woman
Anna Thomson meets June Purvis, a champion of the study of feminism trying to foster a 'collective voice'. June Purvis, professor of women's and gender history at the University of Portsmouth, is an...
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Swap your p-book for an e-book?
Electronic publishing is big business, but Helen Davies believes the death of the textbook is greatly exaggerated. In the 1990s, claims were rife that William Caxton's "boke" - or in today's jargon...
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Time to talk, do you copy?
Graham Taylor says the new copyright licence won't mean 'free beer, no police' What do we know of how students study or want to study? The answer, it seems, is remarkably little, and it is perhaps...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
I was 16 and studying ancient Greek, the only person in the year. "My lower-VIth class," the teacher called me without a hint of humour. She towered above me at her high desk, while I dutifully sat...
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Report of scientific and technical research meeting (CREST), 26-27 March 2002
Brussels, 30 May 2002 Summary conclusions of the 282nd meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST) held in Santa Cruz de Tenerife on 26- March 2002. Note to CREST Delegations....
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A new step towards a European area of higher education: European Universities to "tune" their study programmes
Brussels, 30 May 2002 The European Commission will host a big conference gathering over 100 European universities, student associations, professional bodies and employees on Friday 31 May 2002 in...
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EU funded project confirms viability of liquid hydrogen fuelled aircraft
Brussels, 30 May 2002 The results of an EU funded project, Cryoplane, which confirmed the feasibility of liquid hydrogen fuelled aircraft as an alternative to fossil fuelled planes, were presented in...