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Germany and Brazil exchange ideas Germany and Brazil have signed a memorandum of understanding that aims to increase the bilateral exchange of postgraduate and postdoctoral academics by 20...
Germany and Brazil exchange ideas Germany and Brazil have signed a memorandum of understanding that aims to increase the bilateral exchange of postgraduate and postdoctoral academics by 20...
Deadline: 15/12/2000
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A 40 page full colour Millennium Magazine will be published with The Times Higher Education Supplement on 21 December 2000. Our first Millennium Magazine looked back over the past 1,000 years of...
The next Textbook Guide, published with The THES on 24 November, will include authoritative reviews of recent textbooks on politics languages and linguistics psychology and psychiatry mathematics and...
Secrets of the Ancients (10.00 am UK Horizons) Re-runs of the BBC Science series from last year begin with an episode in which Robin Knox-Johnston tries to sail a reconstructed Viking longship....
On 17 November The Times Higher Education Supplement presents a snapshot of further education in England as the sector faces its biggest shakeup for many years. Contributors include David Melville,...
Canadian Tories promise to reverse cuts Canada's opposition leader, Joe Clark, has blamed cuts imposed by Jean Chrétien's Liberal government for the country’s brain drain and promised that a Tory...
York running, but loos silent York University was still operating today despite the city's worst flooding for more than 400 years, but staff and students were being asked to&...
THE GUARDIAN Over the past 80 years, 25,000 people have been exposed to chemical weapons at Porton Down. Why did they volunteer, and why did British scientists carry out experiments...
Meridian: The Copland Years (9.05 am, repeated 7.05 pm World Service). Leonard Slatkin on American music during Copland’s 90 years. The first of four programmes. (See also Friday Nov 10.)...
US and UK cancel Ugandan scholarships Britain and the United States have cancelled 80 scholarships for Ugandan army officers to train at their military colleges. Diplomatic sources in...
Wellcome unveils £3bn science boost Biomedical research will get more than £3 billion from the Wellcome Trust over the next five years. The world’s largest medical charity outlined its intentions...
THE TIMES The government has been accused by Vincent Watts, vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia, of promising "hush money" to universities to keep them quiet in the run-up to the general...
Ian Hislop’s School Rules (2.45 am C4). A repeat of part two of British educational history reaches the 1930s, "an overcrowded, underfunded system dominated by Victorian thinking...