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ART AND DESIGNArchitecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro.By Robert Kirkbride, director of studio 'patafisico and associate professor, Parsons The New School for...
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Windfall for stem-cell science
MRC distributes £15m to help turn discoveries into applications that advance patient care. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Persecution (is) complex
The introduction of a managerialist culture has coincided with a rise in accusations of bullying. But is there really more mistreatment, or are academics accustomed to autonomy overreacting to firm...
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Defend your core by going abroad
The Only Sustainable Edge
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Applying the great lesson of Faraday
New EPSRC head Dave Delpy sets out his mission to hit short and long- term goals. Any student of science will tell you that Michael Faraday's research led to the development of practical devices such...
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe ESRC has announced funding for five public heath centres. Each will receive £4 million over the next five years. Funding is in conjunction with the Department...
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Beat the odds in an all-new game
The RAE may be replaced by a metrics-based system - but how will it work? How should you play your research hand when you don't know the rules? The simple answer is not to try, says Harriet Swain Ka-...
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War by other means
While the conflict in Iraq grinds on, a parallel 'soft' war is being pursued by a host of new indigenous and Western-backed Arabic television, radio and internet services. Annabelle Sreberny says...
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? = forthcoming reviewART AND DESIGN- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black PortraitureBy Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett professor of art and art history, Duke University. University of Chicago...
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Europe must 'stop hiding behind its social model' and create the right conditions for entrepreneurship, Lisbon workshop is told
Brussels, 17 Nov 2005 Europe must 'stop hiding behind its social model' and instead concentrate on creating the right conditions for entrepreneurship to flourish at the local and regional level, a...
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Research bodies fear DTI bid to siphon off £140m
Research councils fear that the Department of Trade and Industry will attempt to fill a hole in its coffers by clawing back £140 million that is already earmarked for research, it emerged this week....
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Hustings brings out anger over pay dispute
The gloves came off in the fight to lead the University and College Union this week as the two main rivals for the general secretary's job went head to head for the first time at an election hustings...
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Academics split over teaching contact hours
Lancaster and Manchester move to give students more time with tutors, writes Rebecca Attwood
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European IST Conference - Bucharest, 8 December
Brussels, 31 October 2006 FIMAN Development Services, the coordinator of the European IST project, will organize on 8 December 2006 the "EUROPEAN IST Conference". The event will take place in...
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Tory plan for ideas agency
A future Conservative government should set up a £1 billion agency to turn research ideas into products and services, a task force has recommended. An Innovative Projects Agency would correct "the UK...