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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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Minaret among the dreaming spires
Oxford's Islamic centre celebrates the faith's traditions - and blends in with the city domes, says Mandy Garner, a year on from the London bombings For an institution that started life in a wooden...
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Keep faith out of the limelight
Multicultural Politics
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West breaks eastern promise 2
Tim Barrett suggests that unique specialist knowledge on contemporary Uyghur separatism in Chinese Central Asia will simply "disappear" after recent cuts at Durham University ("Asian studies cuts may...
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Trials on H5N1 bird flu vaccine show encouraging results
Brussels, 19 Dec 2005 The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Pasteur has announced that preliminary results of clinical trials of an candidate H5N1 pre-pandemic influenza vaccine demonstrated a...
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In line for a licking from our mother tongue
Universities in other European countries are increasingly offering courses conducted in English. This could have serious implications for recruitment of students to UK institutions, Anna Fazackerley...
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One foot in the future
Nottingham is the first university permitted to build a campus in China. Ian Gow reports The internationalisation of higher education in China is proceeding at a phenomenal pace. The number and...
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Japan's ALOS in orbit: ESA will deliver its data to European researchers
Paris, 25 Jan 2006 ALOS, Japan's latest Earth Observation satellite, was successfully launched at 02:33 CET (10:33 Japan time) on 24 January. Environmental data and imagery from ALOS will be provided...
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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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Fine-tuning puts picture in much sharper focus
With its improved accuracy and the inclusion of even more information, the second Times Higher World Rankings is the best guide to the world's top universities, says Martin Ince Today The Times...
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Ideal way to lighten the load
Classrooms can't cope with Asia's education needs. E-learning is a solution and is gaining popularity as Sars keeps students at home, writes Mark Rowe in Singapore. Asia is widely viewed as the world...
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The global killer that will not die
The Return of the White Plague
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No 1 place to find number twos
Need to get to the bottom of that elusive research on excrement? Whether your quest is for the diet of those living in the Roman empire or honeybee faeces in Southeast Asia, an Alberta University...
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Oases with a loud tick, tick ringing through the air
Half of the world's most densely populated cities are located in areas vulnerable to earth-quakes - and there is a very good reason why. James Jackson explains It has already been a bad century for...
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Australians snub Asian studies
The study of Asian languages and culture in Australia is in a "crisis" exacerbated by the Bali bomb and the withdrawal of all Australian university students and staff based in Indonesia. A report by...