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Scientists rally to save chemistry department Scientists are mobilising to stop the University of Sussex closing its highly rated chemistry department that has produced two Nobel prize winners and is...
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Queen's Birthday Honours 2006
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Knighthoods Roy Anderson , chief scientific adviser, Ministry of Defence. Barrington Cunliffe , professor of European archaeology, Oxford University. Richard Hunt , principal...
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Avian flu: Agriculture and Fisheries Council (approval of other items), 22-24 November
Brussels, 24 November 2005 2692nd Council Meeting - Agriculture and Fisheries Brussels, 22-24 November 2005 Full text Provisional version (to be completed) Commissioner Kyprianou provided the Council...
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Sacred storeys open to congregational devotion
Temple to Love
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Laboratories worldwide destroy lethal virus samples
Brussels, 13 Apr 2005 Laboratories around the world have been destroying a potentially deadly influenza sample sent to them accidentally in testing kits. The samples of Asian flu, which killed over...
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A lifelong fling with Highlands and Islands
Olga Wojtas meets the man who fought two decades for a university in his region and now leads its history centre Jim Hunter, genial and soft-spoken, appears an unlikely 21st-century Highland...
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US may curb lab access
Foreign students in the US could be barred from using some types of laboratory equipment or even setting foot in certain parts of research laboratories if two US government proposals aimed at...
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EU project makes tools to protect the complex inter-dependencies connecting key information-based infrastructures in network industries
Brussels, 01 Mar 2006 The Commission has launched a new seven million euro Integrated Project which aims to shed light on the increasingly complex interconnections between key information-based...
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Today's news
Statistics to dominate research assessment Radical changes to the way British academic research is assessed and funded were announced today by Bill Rammell, the higher education minister. The...
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Durham's Asian crisis
We write to express dismay about the decision of Durham University this week to shut its East Asia department. Staff were formally told about the proposal only six days before it was due to be...
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Keep faith out of the limelight
Multicultural Politics
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Veiled might of the harem
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World - Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
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UK eyes turn to India as China's interest falls
India could replace China as the number one target of UK universities recruiting overseas students, new figures suggest. While the previously booming recruitment market in China has suffered a sharp...
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Lifting the veil on a hidden concern
Keekok Lee and Mary Searle-Chatterjee ask if women should be allowed to cover up in class An international bank asks you to write a reference for a student in your seminar group. You hesitate. Her...
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International Council for Science launches natural disaster mitigation initiative
Brussels, 07 Nov 2005 Recognising that scientific research has 'not lived up to its full potential in addressing some of society's most pressing concerns', the International Council for Science (ICSU...