Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this...
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Green piece of the action
Vitality and Renewal
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Sinister surveillance
Sophisticated Gulf War technology is finding its way on to the high streets of Britain as electronic surveillance moves into a new and sinister era driven by powerful commercial interests. At a...
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An island set in a lager sea
Hope and Glory
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Paul Marginson, senior lecturer in industrial relations at the University of Warwick, has been appointed to the chair in human resource management and employment relations; George...
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Gene havoc, plant form
Reaching for the Sun - The Evolutionary Biology of Plants - The Nature of Disease in Plants
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Parting political shots
The French pride themselves on Cartesian clarity. They have been trained to turn everyday difficulties into abstract problems, and to seek solutions from the top down, as consequences of general...
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View from the Fens Windows
Roger Needham is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge millions. Tony Durham asks how he will spend them Microsoft is not the first computing...
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Give us Pounds 5 billion and we'll give back more
The CVCP aims to persuade the government that higher education is vital to wealth creation and social inclusion. Tony Tysome reports Vice-chancellors conjured scenes from Oliver Twist last week, when...
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Not just a lot of old Tosh
Christina Preston on a ground-breaking in-service training alliance between teachers and industry. Most teachers have had few first degree opportunities to learn the skills or explore the...
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The radical assault on our health
FREE RADICALS AND OXIDATIVE STRESS: ENVIRONMENT, DRUGS AND FOOD ADDITIVES.Edited by C. Rice-Evans, B. Halliwell and G. G. Lunt. Portland Press 6pp, Pounds 65.00. ISSN 0067 8694. FREE RADICALS IN...
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Grants
University of Birmingham European funds Dr G. Boons, Pounds 71,269 from the Commission (synthetic saccharides to study the immunological properties of type III group B streptoccus oligosaccharides);...
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Wisdom on a forecourt
The Gas Station in America
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Canada gets wise to science's social life
Canada lags behind most industrialised nations in recognising the crucial role of science and technology, according to a new report, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. Research and development spending,...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight, this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk European Union Fourth Research & Technological...