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Top-up fees spark rush for university places University applications have risen by nearly nine per cent this year as students rush to secure university places before the introduction of top-up fees....
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Pair to fund scholarship
Two Strathclyde University professors have put their money where their mouths are to fund a scholarship for a master of international management course being launched in autumn. Neil Hood (pictured...
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Teacher audit
Name : Paul Freathy Age : 42 Job : Professor of retail management and director of the Institute for Retail Studies at Stirling University. Salary : A pittance given my skills, charm and boyish good...
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Bra design degree wins support
An international businessman has given Britain's only bra-design degree course a £100,000 financial lift. De Montfort University is the only academic institution in the world to offer a degree in...
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Bra design degree wins support
An international businessman has given Britain's only bra-design degree course a £100,000 financial lift. De Montfort University is the only academic institution in the world to offer a degree in...
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Sars travel warning
Students from Hong Kong, southern China and parts of Southeast Asia have been warned not to return home for the Easter break in an effort to prevent their contracting the deadly severe acute...
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Giants of the US face contenders from all corners
The ability of institutions in Europe and Asia to attract and fund world-class research teams is cutting into America's monopoly on innovation in areas such as bioscience, discovers Martin Ince North...
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MEPs hear of the socio-economic importance of chemistry in Europe
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 With discussions on a proposed new regulatory framework for chemicals set to begin in the European Parliament in the near future, the President elect of the UK's Royal Society...
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MEPs hear of the socio-economic importance of chemistry in Europe
Brussels, 29 Jan 2004 With discussions on a proposed new regulatory framework for chemicals set to begin in the European Parliament in the near future, the President elect of the UK's Royal Society...
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Who got that job?
Lucia Nagib Job advertised in The Times Higher , October 17 2003 Lucia Nagib will take up a new chair in world cinema at Leeds University on January 1. The position was one of 20 centenary chairs...
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Old masters not alone in the arts landscape
In the Top 50, left, are the institutions our peer-review college regards as the best in the world at arts and humanities research. Uniquely among the data presented in this series, we do not show a...
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E-learning university targets student market in Singapore
More than 1,500 Singaporean students are expected to enrol with Scotland's Interactive University, generating an anticipated £6 million over the next three years, writes Olga Wojtas. The news was...
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E-learning university targets student market in Singapore
More than 1,500 Singaporean students are expected to enrol with Scotland's Interactive University, generating an anticipated £6 million over the next three years, writes Olga Wojtas. The news was...
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IAEA looks to the future following 50 years of nuclear power
Brussels, 28 Jun 2004 Exactly half a century after a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet Union became the first to be connected to a national electricity grid, the International Atomic Energy...
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The rise and fall of humanity's civil tongues
Empires of the Word