It's all about them
The universities that do well in ÌÇÐÄVlog's Student Experience poll put students first, but as Rebecca Attwood learns, there is more than one way to do that
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Special deliveries get smaller
A nanotechnology challenge aims to take healthcare to a new level with targeted therapy, says Zoe Corbyn
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Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk
Fiona Reid dissects an analysis that aims to move patent policy beyond faith and towards evidence
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Innovation Policy and Competitiveness (Extract from Council press release on the Competitiveness Council of 25 September)
Brussels, 25 Sep 2006 On the basis of a Presidency questionnaire ( 12585/06 ), the Council held a public exchange of views on innovation and competitiveness following a presentation by Commission...
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Do you want to be in my gang?
Some say mission groups help air vital issues collegially, but others think they selfishly expose the sector to divide-and-rule tactics. Melanie Newman looks at the group dynamics
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Who's in, who's out?
DURHAM Ray Hudson has been appointed "regional champion" at Durham University. Professor Hudson is an economic geographer who has held a range of senior management positions during his 34-year career...
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UK urged to exploit inventive talents
The UK risks losing university innovations to the Far East because it lacks a coherent strategy for bringing ideas to market, claims one of the country's foremost electronics experts, writes Melanie...
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Get happy, and get on with it
Projects to boost staff wellbeing are all the rage, but some people wonder if the interest in workers' psychological health belies a rather less altruistic agenda. Melanie Newman reports
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The Red Queen Among Organizations: How Competitiveness Evolves
It takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place," says the Red Queen in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, a fitting metaphor for this book about organisational competition,...
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Appointments
The London School of Economics has recruited Niall Ferguson to a chair in international history. Professor Ferguson, an academic historian, journalist and television presenter, holds positions at...
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Appointments
Anne Neville of the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds has been awarded a ten-year research chair in emerging technologies - the first of its kind to be given by the Royal...
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Appointments
Annabelle Sreberny, professor of global media and communications at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas), has been elected president of the International Association for Media and...
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Brother, can you spare the time?
Many now-defunct public clocks once helped shape shared spaces. Tara Brabazon is delighted that a (digital) website is working to restore function and value to a neglected (analogue) public feature
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Moving with the times
One happy childhood memory that I cherish is riding in a clunky old white Volvo with my much bigger big brother. I was eight. He was 23 and completing his sixth and final year of a medical degree. As...
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Grant winners
NC3RsThe National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research has funded ten new grants, totalling £2.6 million.Award winner: Sue BarnettInstitution: University of...