From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Early January should see the blooming of the government's new white paper on the knowledge economy - the latest competitiveness white paper. BP will announce £2.5m funding for...
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Pay bargaining chief resigns University pay bargaining chief Peter Humphreys today announced his resignation and said that local pay bargaining is almost certain to become the norm in the sector. Mr...
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TV & radio guide - Wednesday
Truman (9.25 am BBC2, also Thurs 9.15 am, Friday 9.00 am ). Three-part profile of former US president. The Civil War: Traitors and Patriots (10.00 am History Channel) and » The West : Speck of the...
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Latest international news
University reopens after student protest The University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso has reopened two months after a boycott of lectures by students demanding better living and...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN After 30 years of stonewalling, the United Kingdom government is finally considering following the lead of 91 other countries and signing the Unesco convention banning the international...
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OU vice-chancellor leaves for Unesco Sir John Daniel, vice-chancellor of the Open University, is to be assistant director general of Unesco from next spring. Sir John said it would be a “wrench” to...
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TV & radio guide - Tuesday
The Snowman (9.30 am R4). Are snowmen pagan survivals? This and other questions considered by experts in folklore, theology, philosophy … The Civil War: The Cause (10.00 am History Channel, and for...
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Latest international news
Court frees academic jailed for terrorism United States attorney general Janet Reno has freed Mazen Al-Najjar, who was jailed as a suspected terrorist in May 1997. Professor Al-Najjar was...
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Latest UK news
London's research dominance comes under threat Vice-chancellors from London universities and further education institutions have told London mayor Ken Livingstone that the capital’s position as the...
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From today's UK papers
DAILY MAIL MPs will decide tomorrow whether British scientists should be allowed to clone human embryos for research that might lead to cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's Research from...
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TV & radio guide - Monday
» Composer of the Week (9.00 am R3 and rest of week) is Schubert. Random Edition (11.00 am R4). The Strand Magazine for Christmas 1897: Peter Snow consults Chris Willis of Birkbeck and others about...
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TV & radio guide - Sunday
Two Thousand Years (10.30 am ITV). Revised repeats of Melvyn Bragg’s history-of-Christianity series, first shown from April last year, reaches episode two: the second century AD. (The generally...
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TV & radio guide - Saturday
» The Sky at Night (11.55 am BBC2). Repeat from late last Sunday of programme featuring NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman on observing from space. The Real Helen Keller (1.00 C4). How much...
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China calls for increased cooperation withRussia
Chinese vice-premier Li Langqing has called for increased cooperation in higher education between China and Russia to enable the two countries to "continue to contribute to world civilisation" in the...
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Discord greets hymns for her
A York University researcher is wading in to one of the most contentious issues facing the church - are girls' voices suited to singing the Divine Office? Purists argue that while girls' voices may...