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...now 66 and battling against multiple sclerosis, was briefly the most famous scientist in Britain. On June 2, 2003, his team at the Open University, in collaboration with the University of Leicester and the European Space Agency's Mars...

In this article: Colin Pillinger, Beagle 2, Mars, Mars Express, Sputum, Malawi, University of Leicester, and Cancer

...birth to their daughter, Nora, she is continuing to study for a degree in social education at Uned, the Spanish equivalent of the Open University. What he most likes about England is the sense of anonymity. It may sound surprising, knowing the...

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...involves sounding like a weasel's fart instead of a mouse's fart. Honestly, it was awful - as weedy and disinterested as listening to an Open University audiotape of a middle-aged librarian flatly listing different types of dust. On the other...

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...left the rest of the year for hanging out with friends, travelling, doing a bit of writing (a long-standing ambition) and finishing her Open University degree. Now 28, Garai was born in Hong Kong to British parents. Her father was a banker...

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...- include the universities of Aberystwyth, East Anglia, Essex, King's College London, Lancaster, the London School of Economics, the Open University, Oxford, Reading, Warwick and York. Issues addressed include ageing, care for vulnerable...

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...on those campuses, but on iTunes, the lectures are free. Near the head of the class, with more than 375,000 downloads a week, is Open University, a distance-learning institution based in Britain. The school said that last weekend its...

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...have to gag [them, because they] will alienate most, if not all, wealth creators." The Centre was shut down. It only reopened years later, at the Open University. Drug companies today are the largest funders of university research, and they...

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...centuries of astronomers who believed they could see see water on the Moon. Professor Colin Pillinger, planetary scientist at Open University and head of Beagle 2 Mars lander project Published: 7:00AM GMT 14 Nov 2009 Since the 1600s...

In this article: Moon, NASA, Colin Pillinger, Apollo, Barack Obama, and Mars

process for transferring on to degree course streamlined Dundee College signs deal with Open University College students in Dundee are being encouraged to consider continuing their studies at university level. A new partnership...

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Posted in Servers, 4th November 2009 08:02 GMT The Open University is in negotiations with Microsoft and Google about cloud computing services for students and staff. Niall Sclater, the OU's director of learning innovation, told GC News...

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