From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph Gordonstoun, the school attended by three generations of the Royal Family, is using cyber-heroine Lara Croft in cinema advertising. Hormone patches can prevent a form of depression...
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Latest UK news
BMA warns of crisis The British Medical Association has warned of a recruitment and retention crisis in academic medicine. Speaking at the BMA's annual representatives' meeting this week, Ian Bogle,...
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Innovative Health Technologies (Phase II)
Deadline: 03/09/2001
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Euresco conferences: fourth call for conference proposals
Deadline: 15/09/2001
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Cultural Exchange in Europe, 1400-1700: travel grants
Deadline: 31/07/2002
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Social and Behavioural Studies
Deadline: 30/07/2001
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The tonic is in the trees
Ecologist Jingyun Fang brought a new urgency to his studies when he learnt that his home town had suffered a damaging change in climate. My home town is a small, poor village called Anqing, located...
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Cutting edge
If doctors could understand the link between strokes and brain damage, they might be in a position to develop a treatment Imagine waking up one morning unable to move major parts of your body. This...
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Star Turn: Malcolm Parry
David Mosford talks to a charismatic Welshman who wants to see architecture in vogue  Malcolm Parry does not believe in teaching. This may seem odd coming from someone who is head of the Welsh...
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Commonwealth bid to promote scholarships to African colleges
Forget Princeton or the Sorbonne - British students will have more opportunities to study at African universities if plans being discussed among Commonwealth student-mobility specialists come to...
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Elite push frontiers in widening access
Harmonica playing could prove as effective as good A-level scores in securing a place at the United Kingdom's most prestigious higher education institutions. The European Access Network, which is...
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'BSE lessons not learnt'
Crucial lessons from the BSE crisis have not been learnt by the government, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, a former member of the BSE inquiry committee, has warned. Scientific expertise remained untapped by...
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Oxford and Imperial lead in the spin-off age
Oxford University was crowned the most innovative university in Britain in a business competition last week, with Imperial College, London, coming a close second. Dundee was awarded best emerging...
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Journals rebellion in need of support
Librarians and scholars who have been setting up non-commercial alternatives to high-priced journals say more academics need to join the fight to achieve a more balanced marketplace. In recent years...