. . . an apple for the trainers
The Teacher Training Agency's first annual funding allocations reveal a move towards converging the cost of courses based at schools and higher education institutions. School-centred schemes will...
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Prising pennies from the Old Codgers
It is fat, it represents Pounds 1.5 billion a year and it might just have a little for your next research project. The Directory of Grant Making Trusts lists trusts concerned with every imaginable...
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Bosses and boffins pact
Ronald Amann welcomes the unique opportunities the new funding culture creates for research, particularly in the social sciences. In 1852, Sir Lyon Playfair, then a lecturer in chemistry in the newly...
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Efficiency squeeze on teachers
The 1995/96 allocations differ from those of the past two years because research as well as teaching has been subjected to an efficiency gain of 1.5 per cent. Total research allocations of Pounds 636...
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The struggle to relate the complex to everyday life
Your main problem as a researcher who wants to write a feature article is that you know too much. Assume that you fancy writing the odd piece in a field not too far from your own. You should start by...
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All aboard for mission to explain
A pump made from human muscle and plastic is being developed at Glasgow University as an alternative to heart transplants.'' A first paragraph to please any news editor - catchy but informative,...
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Space, the final frontier
A masters degree in space studies begins this summer for high-flying students from a range of disciplines. The course not only teaches students from all over the world how to design space projects,...
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Lace under heavyweight fire
Sheila Mason describes her experience of studying part-time for ten years for a PhD at Nottingham University as a "postgraduate horror story". The shortest part of this horror story was her viva....
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Postgraduate desk drought
Over the past ten years the number of full-time research postgraduates has increased 129 per cent but this has not been matched by funding. Therefore since undergraduate numbers have also increased,...
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Children of Major reveal litigious side
There are no hard and fast statistics to prove it, and until a Government agency starts collecting the data, it is likely to remain a gut feeling. Nevertheless, many people working in the...
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John Izbicki is writing a history of the University of North London, whose centenary will be commemorated next year. He would like to receive anecdotes, factual reminiscences and clearly captioned...
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Exhibition of indian art
(Photograph) - Playtime: Central American ball player, on show at an exhibition of indian art at the Sainsbury Gallery, University of East Anglia, Norwich until June 4
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW: The following were awarded Honorary LLD degrees: Winifred Ewing, Member of the European Parliament; Marion Fraser, chair of Christian Aid and HM commissioner to the General...
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Grants
LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY: Research contracts: Professor J. McGuirk and Dr P. Render, Pounds 209,147 from British Aerospace Ltd (damaged wing studies); Professor J. McGuirk and Mr A. Wray...
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Events
AZTEC AND MAYAS BALLGAME: The Sainsbury Gallery at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, is exhibiting a selection of 70 central American indian paintings and drawings from the collection of Howard...