Institute will be a boost to industry
Cambridge University and top business leaders have joined forces to create a new Institute for Manufacturing to act as a focal point for the industry. The institute will bring together the economics...
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‘Hard core’ UCU activists urge staff to reject 2% pay offer
Marking boycott suspended as union warns accepting deal would represent a ‘damaging defeat’
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Parliament to debate Commission's ideas for a more coherent space strategy
Brussels, 11 January 2002 The European Parliament will debate a Commission communication on the need to develop a more coherent European space strategy on 16 January. The European Council called upon...
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Prevent language death
In June 2013, the University of Salford announced that it would close its modern languages department. Following the local University and College Union branch’s resolution to support colleagues...
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Welsh research: punching above its weight
Wales does quite well from its small research base, but it can do better, says Peter Halligan
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Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan, by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds
Roger Morgan lauds a biography charting Labour statesman’s rise from a colliery to the Cabinet
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International report urges pharmaceutical industry to invest more in nanotechnology
Brussels, 17 Feb 2005 While EU governments are making funding available for nanotechnology research, major pharmaceutical companies are investing very little money or human resources in this field,...
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Government defends innovation policy
The government has defended its innovation policy after criticisms that the lack of a coherent strategy was harming UK business.
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DNA pioneer Jeffreys wins Royal Society award
The academic who developed genetic fingerprinting has won what is believed to be the world’s oldest scientific prize
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Campus close-up: Coventry University
‘Captain Cyborg’ Kevin Warwick on how a new research focus and 200 extra staff can help the institution rise up the rankings
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‘India effect’ hits STEM subjects, peers hear
Overseas student numbers dropping overall in science due to Indian demand
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Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City, by Gordon Young
Sherry Lee Linkon on a ‘community of memory’ fighting for a place called home
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Campus close-up: Falmouth University
A specialist multi-arts university aims to help its students to become entrepreneurial
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Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe?, by Anthony Giddens
Roger Morgan on a peer’s review of Brussels’ weaknesses
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Campus close-up: Bath Spa University
West Country campus focuses on student exchange schemes and boosting overseas intake