A lifelong fling with Highlands and Islands
Olga Wojtas meets the man who fought two decades for a university in his region and now leads its history centre Jim Hunter, genial and soft-spoken, appears an unlikely 21st-century Highland...
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Statistics to dominate research assessment Radical changes to the way British academic research is assessed and funded were announced today by Bill Rammell, the higher education minister. The...
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Laboratories worldwide destroy lethal virus samples
Brussels, 13 Apr 2005 Laboratories around the world have been destroying a potentially deadly influenza sample sent to them accidentally in testing kits. The samples of Asian flu, which killed over...
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EU project makes tools to protect the complex inter-dependencies connecting key information-based infrastructures in network industries
Brussels, 01 Mar 2006 The Commission has launched a new seven million euro Integrated Project which aims to shed light on the increasingly complex interconnections between key information-based...
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Veiled might of the harem
Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World - Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
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US may curb lab access
Foreign students in the US could be barred from using some types of laboratory equipment or even setting foot in certain parts of research laboratories if two US government proposals aimed at...
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UK eyes turn to India as China's interest falls
India could replace China as the number one target of UK universities recruiting overseas students, new figures suggest. While the previously booming recruitment market in China has suffered a sharp...
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Keep faith out of the limelight
Multicultural Politics
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Lifting the veil on a hidden concern
Keekok Lee and Mary Searle-Chatterjee ask if women should be allowed to cover up in class An international bank asks you to write a reference for a student in your seminar group. You hesitate. Her...
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International Council for Science launches natural disaster mitigation initiative
Brussels, 07 Nov 2005 Recognising that scientific research has 'not lived up to its full potential in addressing some of society's most pressing concerns', the International Council for Science (ICSU...
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Market with a wealth of talent - but should UK plunder it?
At a House of Commons ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Affairs Committee on immigration control in May, Gwyn Prosser, MP, told fellow members that while Leeds University had received some 2,500 applications from Nigerians, and...
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Towards a European strategy for particle physics
Brussels, 04 Nov 2005 Concerned that the long timescale of particle physics experiments and the complexity of associated research programmes are delaying the advancement of particle physics, the...
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Climate change conference emphasises incentives for research and technology transfer
Brussels, 03 Nov 2005 A meeting between representatives from 20 countries on climate change closed with participants agreeing that new technologies are key to slowing the process, and pledging to...
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Today's news
Professor's anger and sadness as victims helped One of the consultants treating victims of the London bomb blasts spoke of the anger felt by medical teams as they dealt with the injuries. Professor...
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Imperial effort to bank a river
Mad about the Mekong