Students hold the balance of power
It is tempting to assume that higher education issues will be a decisive factor in the electoral battle for Birmingham Edgbaston. As in 1997, when Labour overturned a 100-year Tory reign in the...
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Interdisciplinary Research Networks in Analytical Science
Deadline: 31/07/2001
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MathFIT - Call for Proposals
Deadline: 19/10/2001
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Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Processes and European Climate (COAPEC): fellowships
Deadline: 30/09/2001
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E-science programme
Deadline: 15/06/2001
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Budgeting and complementary control mechanisms
Deadline: 30/09/2001
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Dr Edouard Delcroix Prize
Deadline: 30/06/2001
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Research Grants
Deadline: 15/07/2001
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Next week
NEWS New shape of London's universities; Election 2001: the academic candidates. FEATURES Professor Jones, MPhil, PhD, MP: how standing for Parliament affects political scientists' academic studies....
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Indebted students lambast penalties
Universities around the country were accused of being heavy-handed after thousands of students were threatened with sanctions over failure to pay tuition fees. Many have already been excluded. Ben...
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Whistleblowers
Sacked lecturer Janet Enever has been reinstated at Nottingham Trent University following an outcry over the way she was treated. The THES reported earlier this month that Ms Enever had been formally...
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'Fleet-footed' bid to deal with shortfall
The University of Sunderland has decided to downsize after a period of rapid expansion in the early 1990s left it "extremely vulnerable", according to vice-chancellor Peter Fidler. It is one of a...
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Don's Diary
Sunday Been in Nicaragua almost a week. The generator is failing; mirrors have been etched by volcanic fumes; fuses are blowing everywhere; then just when everything seems to be running OK, the PC...
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On the move
The Biotechnology and Biological Research Council has appointed to its council: Cheryll Tickle , professor of developmental biology at the University of Dundee; Tom Kirkwood , head of the department...
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Blunkett on the ball
Not content with fighting an election and plotting a new career at the Home Office, David Blunkett appears on the front page of Supporters Direct , a government-backed newsletter for people setting...