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Eternal flame burns in a freezing landscape
The Last Giant of Beringia
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a story turned into an opera by Benjamin Britten: "The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently...
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Renewable energy sector calls for FP7 annual budget line of 250 million euro
Brussels, 10 Mar 2005 Europe's renewable energy community has become the latest group to lobby for increased research and development (R&D) funding in the next EU research programme, the...
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Double volcanic eruption in Eastern Russia Captured in Envisat Photos (link)
Paris, 10 Mar 2005 Photos Acquired from orbit 800 kilometres away, this Envisat image shows two volcanoes erupting simultaneously on Russia's snowy Kamchatka Peninsula this week. Located in the...
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Outgoing Fellowships: Australia, Canada and New Zealand
Deadline: 03/05/2005
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Master's or Doctoral Funding Scheme
Deadline: 03/05/2005
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Today's news
Row over funding demand for Open University A row has erupted over funding for the Open University, the country's best-known distance-learning institution. Its senior management has warned ministers...
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Laurie Taylor column
" Hefce burdened by Freedom of Information requests and censoring " - The Times Higher, March 4 . To: The Higher Education Funding Council for England Dear Sir, I understand that under the new...
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Leader: Cash boost may come at a price
This should be a red-letter week for university research. The science budget marked the beginning of the end of an era when accepting research council grants might cost an institution money. Instead...
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Leader: HR clouds must clear
Higher education is not an easy field in which to be a human resources manager. Not only is there an unusually diverse range of staff, but many of those in positions of responsibility have been...
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V-cs' salary divide 2
Barry Ife's letter is extraordinary (March 4). He complains that in your report on vice-chancellors' salaries - in which you showed that they had doubled over the past ten years - you spelt his name...
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V-cs' salary divide 3
You claim that my salary is £113,000. This is incorrect. The right sum is £97,000. Michael Alder Writtle College
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Back PhDs everywhere
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is phasing out funding for PhD students in departments with units of assessment ranked 3a ("Funding fillip for further study", March 4). Now it can...
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Of butts and beeps
So Alastair Fowler's castigating Stephen Greenblatt is like Thomas Edison's ticking off an electrician ("Heavyweights square up in bout of literary 'butt kicking'", March 4). Greenblatt is the...