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Porridge Ingredients: oats, water, heat. The best porridge is made from pinhead oatmeal, really coarse oatmeal. Put one scoop oatmeal with three scoops water into a pan. Bring to the boil, stirring...
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Blimp, Jeeves and Wooster
Correlli Barnett argues that Britain failed to reinvent itself after the war partly because of its inept and liberal elite. When Britain under its new Labour Government made the transition from war...
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Science base rocked to core
As the academies warn that research capability is under threat, Tony Trinci puts flesh on the bones they rattle. The November 1995 Budget represents a defining moment for university education and...
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IT cannot replace eye-to-eye
Technology may save money for the cash-strapped OU but students may suffer Information technology means job cuts. Not always, not everywhere. But it is now impossible to pretend that the higher...
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Lecturers frozen out
IT to reduce staff by the year 2000, say universities. Thousands of university lecturers took to the streets this week to protest at underfunding and low pay. But universities are planning to cut...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EUROPEAN UNION. www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu. int/comm/...
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Privatisers on parade
Privatisation And Economic Performance
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Green piece of the action
Vitality and Renewal
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF READING (continued) Research contracts Professor D. Bassett, Pounds ,642 from New Energy & Industrial Technology (fundamental studies on crystallisation of polymer with emphasis...
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Gandhi's sartorial message
Clothing Matters
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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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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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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