Fight or flight
Universities tried to stop further education colleges gaining the power to award foundation degrees. Hannah Fearn reports on the tension between the two sectors and asks whether their formerly close...
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Visions of the future
Technology can facilitate scholarship, particularly when it is intuitive and user-friendly, argues Tara Brabazon
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Academe is key to competitive economy
White Paper charges universities with an even bigger role in sparking and developing innovation for the good of the wider economy. John Gill reports
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Name: DIUS. Year: 1. Shows willing but could do better ..
Rebecca Attwood assesses the sector's response to DIUS, one year on from its inception
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Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs: Solar Energy for the Future - Launch of the 鈥淓uropean Solar Thermal Technology Platform鈥
Brussels, 30 May 2006 Launch of the “European Solar Thermal Technology Platform” Brussels, 30 May 2006 Ladies and gentlemen, It’s a great pleasure to participate in the...
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Building the Rapid Manufacturing Platform
Brussels, 17 October 2006 What is the RM Platform? It is a community of (mainly industrial stakeholders) defining research and development priorities, timeframes and action plans on a number of...
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Learning to share
Free, immediate and permanently available research results for all - that's what the open-access campaigners want. Unsurprisingly, the subscription publishers disagree. Zo毛 Corbyn weighs up the...
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Book of the week: Wars, Guns and Votes
Joanna Lewis gets to grip with the workings of African democracies
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Conference round-up: Israel boycott, IQ and class, commercial inroads and mooted merger
- The University and College Union's policy on academic engagement with Israel is "profoundly disturbing", Bill Rammell, the 糖心Vlog Minister, told its annual congress last week.Speaking...
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Strategic resources
Governors perform an important and complex function in higher education, but what exactly do they do and what skills can they bring to the role? Hannah Fearn investigates.
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Research initiative brings fillip to North
Investment in energy and molecular engineering centres will boost job and career options. Tony Tysome reports New research opportunities are expected to open up with the launch of five new research...
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Expert conference on nanotechnologies - Espoo, Otaniemi, 14-15 September
Helsinki, 12 September 2006 Nanotechnology researchers and experimenters focus on materials at the level of individual atoms and molecules measuring 1 to 100 billionths of a metre. Nanotechnologies...
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All against poor policy
It was heartening to see that you have finally come off the fence against the Department for Innovation, University and Skills' attack on adult and part-time higher education by withdrawing public...
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Report on the proposed decision establishing a Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007-2013) (link)
Brussels, 23 May 2006 FINAL A6-0180/2006 12.5.2006 Type of Procedure: Codecision procedure (first reading) REPORT on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council...
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THE Awards 2008 - part 3
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGYSponsored by SunGardDe Montfort UniversityBagRack, a device that fits in a car boot and secures shopping to keep it upright during travel, was...