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Tennessee seeks equality through scholarships Racial quotas at Tennessee's public colleges and universities are to be abandoned. Under new arrangements, the state will instead invest up to $75...
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Latest UK news (withdrawn)
Academic heads medical watchdog Alistair Scotland, director of medical education and research at London’s Chelsea and Westminster, will be the first chief officer of the doctors’ watchdog announced...
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Latest UK news
Academic heads medical watchdog Alistair Scotland, director of medical education and research at London’s Chelsea and Westminster hospital, will be the first chief officer of the doctors’ watchdog...
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New year's honours: more
OBE Patricia Greenhalgh , senior lecturer, department of primary care and population science, University College London, for services to evidence based medical care.
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Project Grants
Deadline: 02/02/2001
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INTEGRAL: announcement of opportunity
Deadline: 16/02/2001
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One-year Scholarships
Deadline: 26/01/2001
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Nato-Russia joint scientific and technological cooperation
Deadline: 15/03/2001
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Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
Deadline: 29/03/2002
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Drug giants call the tune
A multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a Californian university professor will erode the objectivity of research funded by corporations, according to worried American academics. In the California case...
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Funding to get no increase
There will be no real-terms increase in the unit of funding for teaching and core research next year, the latest funding council figures confirm. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has...
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Thatcher - not just a milk snatcher
"Margaret Thatcher - saviour of the Open University." The label is less familiar than "milk snatcher" or "iron lady", but cabinet papers for 1970, released earlier this week under the 30-year rule,...
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Performance pay strings divide sector
Performance-related pay is set to be introduced in universities as part of a series of measures to tackle poor teaching and stop the threatened brain drain of top academics. Lecturers' leaders and...
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Most Scots opt for learning
For the first time, the majority of Scottish school leavers are going into full-time further and higher education. Between 1992-93 and 1999-2000, the percentage of school leavers going on to college...
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Next week
NEWS: Scottish devolution a year after Cubie. FEATURES: Medical ageism or truth avoidance? Judith Okely on how her mother died from CJD, unnoticed. BOOKS: John Dunn on Gerry Cohen's If You're an...