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There is no obvious link between the Formula 1 racing driver Ayrton Senna and the great film director Alfred Hitchcock. Nor is there an obvious link between these two characters and East Anglia -...
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Lecture hours rise
Staff work harder to compensate for lack of study space, writes Tony Tysome Universities have extended the teaching day by the equivalent of nearly one and a half days a week in a bid to relieve...
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Ethical red tape is stifling us, say medical researchers NHS red tape and ethical safeguards brought in after the Alder Hey body parts scandal are stifling research into new medicines, according to...
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College of Europe Masters Thesis on The EU's Contribution to Global Governance: The Case of Global Infectious Diseases (extract)
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 Thesis presented by Oliver WIECHOCZEK for the degree of Master of European Studies at the College of Europe (Prague, June 2006) Full text [...] Abstract In an increasingly...
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World's deepest offshore wind farm almost up and running
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 Wind energy is believed to be one of the most mature renewable technologies, offering an alternative to unsustainable oil and gas. Although the technology for wind farms is...
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Dementia risk factors identified
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 Swedish-Finnish team has identified the factors associated with dementia for the first time, from a 20-year study into the effects of ageing. The team has devised a simple test...
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European Venture Market -- Potsdam, 4-6 October
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 The European Venture Market for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) will be held in Potsdam, Germany between 4 and 6 October 2006, organised by Hasso Plattner...
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Nano2Life summer scientific meeting
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 On 5-7 September the European Network of Excellence Nano2Life will hold its summer scientific meeting at University College Cork in Ireland. The objective of Nano2Life is to...
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EU study finds link between middle-aged spread and colon cancer
Brussels, 03 Aug 2006 Men and women who have larger waistlines may be at an increased risk of colon cancer, according to the findings of an EU-funded study. Over a six-year period, researchers in the...
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Laurie Taylor column
Lastminuteconferences.com Want to include conference attendances in your CV but lack the necessary funds? Time to turn to lastminuteconferences.com. Look at these bargains! Whither Welsh Higher...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto Second-hand bookshops are full of reviewers' discards. There must be books I have written among them, but none that I have reviewed. When I read a book it becomes part of me...
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Leader: Fees may dry up the postgrad pool
Seen from the perspective of an English university, the all-consuming question about top-up fees is the effect they will have on admissions over the next few weeks. There will be time enough to worry...
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Leader: Shame about the name
Giving a system designed to monitor student attendance the title of Uni-Nanny may not have been the best way to win acceptance from the responsible adults that it should benefit. But some method of...
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The business of being a good v-c 1
A minor flurry of vice-chancellor resignations and retirements, with the prospect of a generation of more "businesslike" vice-chancellors ("Struggle to fill v-c job vacancies", July 21), should not...
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The business of being a good v-c 2
It was a reasonably safe bet that recent comments by David Allen, chair of the Association of Heads of University Administration, on non-academics being appointed to vice-chancellor positions would "...