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Medical schools attack staff cuts Hundreds of staff are losing their jobs at Britain's medical schools just as they are being asked to train 15,000 new doctors by 2008. (Times) Royal Society head...
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Telecoms tops apprentice wish list Apprenticeships in the construction and telecommunications industries top the jobs wish list of teenagers aiming to go from school straight into work,...
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Council ready to approve Galileo Joint Undertaking formally, with several statements for the minutes
Brussels, 9 May 2002 Draft Council Regulation setting up the GALILEO Joint Undertaking - Adoption. "I/A" item note from Secretariat general to COREPER/COUNCIL. Brussels, 7 May 2002 (document 8450/02...
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Oxford debuts chair in applied ethics
Julian Savulescu will be the first Uehiro professor of applied ethics at Oxford University from July. He will become a fellow of St Cross College. Professor Savulescu, best known for his work in...
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Cambridge fights council over lab
Cambridge University has appealed against the local council's decision to deny planning permission for a laboratory that would run primate experiments. The dispute with the South Cambridgeshire...
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Buenos Aires
The rectors of Argentina's public universities have offered their institutions' full resources to help premier Eduardo Duhalde overcome the country's crisis.
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Kinshasa
For the first time in three years, universities in rebel-held areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo have received supplies from the capital, Kinshasa, including six months' arrears of staff pay.
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Copenhagen
The Technical University of Denmark needs DKr 50 million (£4.17 million) in state funds to avoid cuts in teaching and research and avert bankruptcy.
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Stirling researcher finds 'lost' manuscript
A Stirling University researcher has discovered a long-lost manuscript by 19th-century Scottish author James Hogg in the Fales Library in New York. Scholars had assumed that the manuscript of The...
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UK leads space-based disaster monitoring
The UK is leading a project to create a constellation of earth-observation satellites to monitor natural and man-made disasters. Surrey Space Centre, a commercial joint venture between Surrey...
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London Metropolitan name gets go-ahead
The Privy Council has approved the name London Metropolitan University for the merged London Guildhall University and the University of North London. It will come into use on August 1. The university...
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National insurance rise may cost £70m
Higher education institutions could have to pay £70 million more next year because of the 1 per cent rise in employers' national insurance contributions. The estimate, by the Universities and...
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Oscar Wilde gift stolen from Magdalen College
A ring worth £35,000 given to a friend by Oscar Wilde has been stolen from Magdalen College, Oxford. The 18-carat gold friendship ring was stolen on May 2, but details of the theft have just been...
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Your pre-flight check: fuel, flaps.. Bible
The Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina, US, has a course in aircraft maintenance/missionary aviation. The fundamentalist Christian institution where Ian Paisley once studied and which...
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The Royal Society savaged by MPs
The 340-year-old Royal Society has been forced to defend itself during a 75-minute grilling by MPs. Royal Society president Lord May faced a barrage of questions from the Common's science and...