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Lecturers target MPs over terror bill The Association of University Teachers is today lobbying MPs as the terror bill gets its second reading in the House of Commons, warning that the legislation...
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Magnetic fields set senses tingling Patients who suffer a stroke could get their movement and feeling back with the helping hand of magnetic pulses fired at their brains, according to new research....
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Asian students flocking to Australia Australia is growing in popularity among Asian students, while the UK and the US are losing ground as the place to study for a degree, claims an international...
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The global killer that will not die
The Return of the White Plague
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A life spent roaming free across boundaries
Harriet Swain says media studies reading lists are forever playing catch-up with trends, but James Curran and Jean Seaton have cracked the canon One book has proved a staple in the study of...
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UN report highlights internationalisation of research and development
Brussels, 06 Oct 2005 The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) issued its annual World Investment Report (WIR) on 29 September. WIR 2005 includes UNCTAD's first-ever survey on...
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Take a board but keep the brolly
If drizzly old Blighty is getting you down, get networking and do your homework on research hot spots. But don't plan for a one-way overseas trip - you may want to come home, says Harriet Swain...
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Oxford and Cambridge join elite research alliance Oxford and Cambridge have joined a global group of 10 elite universities to collaborate in research and to exchange staff and students. Launched in...
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'Establishing the east Asian centre was a wise and imaginative move'
Joshua Ka-ho Mok has been appointed as the first head of Bristol University's Centre For East Asian Studies Joshua Ka-ho Mok will soon swap the heat of Hong Hong for winter in England when he takes...
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First reading of draft 2006 EU budget Council of Finance Ministers
Brussels, 14 July 2005 The EU’s Council of Finance ministers are meeting in Brussels on 15th July at 10.00 a.m. for the first reading of the 2006 draft budget. At 11.00 a.m. representatives...
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League lowdown 3
Latin American studies exist - except in The THES league tables. There, alongside Asia and Africa, we find a solitary America, of a distinctly Anglo hue. It is true that for the purposes of the RAE,...
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Mysterious origins of African who charmed Russian court
Gannibal - The Moor of St Petersburg
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A European Institute of Technology? The European Commission launches a public consultation
Brussels, 16 September 2005 A public consultation on whether and how to create a European Institute of Technology has been opened by the European Commission today. It will gather the views of...
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Germany to lose jobs in R&D
Brussels, 02 Feb 2005 Germany may lose more jobs in research and development (R&D) industries, as the vast majority of companies do not plan to increase research spending at home before 2008...