Sources for research funding in 1998
EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/. Information technologies (ESPRIT) Contact: email: esprit@dg13.cec.be Open call: Research proposals in domains 1,2,6 and 8....
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When the Net gets too hot for commerce to handle
Alistair Chalmers says Internet near meltdowns in the US and Australia offer lessons that the UK's academic network managers must learn Most readers of this piece will be familiar with Janet, the...
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NHS funds to be streamlined with `broad strokes'
The streamlining of National Health Service research money into a single funding channel, as recommended in a major report last month, will have to be a "broad brush" exercise because of the...
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We are not amused
Your article "Lecturers' hours deal for Natfhe" (THES, October 14) describes Roger Ward, Colleges Employers Forum's chief executive, as "very amused" by this college's collective agreement on...
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Caxton: is he dead or merely resting?
Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads
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In the shadow of Saatchi
'It could be you!' The glittering figures of Britain's hot young artists tower above this year's graduates. But have Thatcher's children been prepared for reality and how many will hit the jackpot?...
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Pressing a bitter battle of words
The failings of university presses are notorious among academics - but authors have their own shortcomings. Brian Brivati outlines a charter for a better working relationship between both sides....
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Researchers aim for greener cities
The explosion in the number of people living in cities is damaging the environment. At a recent meeting of the Natural Environment Research Council's atmospheric science community, scientists tabled...
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CBI pre-emptive move on training
The Confederation of British Industry is backing a training league table for employers. The table would set out the record of individual businesses on training investment, as a way of stopping the...
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Urging a natural enmity
Biological pest control is backing the farmers' struggle against those age-old adversaries, mites, locusts and mealybugs. Tunde Fatunde reports One of the world's leading centres for biological...
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Leanliness of the long-distance runner
MEGA-UNIVERSITIES AND KNOWLEDGE MEDIA John Daniel Kogan Page, 211 pp, Pounds 35.00. - ISBN 0 7494 2119 3. This year has been the Year of Lifelong Learning. Perhaps as good an indicator as any of the...
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Grants
THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST Research contracts Dr S Thompson, Pounds 169,775 from the Department of Economic Development (industrial research and technology unit, science and technology...
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Open road to OMI sweet home
Julian Newman looks at the new face of European research and finds hope for the future direction of funding The European Union has recently launched its fourth Framework programme for Research and...
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The Korean connection
Foreign investment in manufacturing industry can have a huge pay-off for British universities and research if all sides are willing to build a partnership, Yong-Doo Cho argues. The Koreans are coming...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF READING. Research grants: Dr K. Niranjan, Pounds 158,584 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (impeller agitated aerobic bioreactors: new insights into gas...