Catalytic converters
Industry is greedy for graduates of sustainable development courses to help ensure that it enjoys long-term commercial returns. Matt Baker reports Sustainable development graduates are arguably among...
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Cap off: it is time to reconsider profile
Scramble to adjust market status has already begun ahead of 2009 review of tuition fees. Tony Tysome reports For many vice-chancellors, it has become a question of "when", not "if". The 2009 review...
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Appointments
The University of Bristol has made two senior appointments at its Centre for East Asian Studies. Yongjin Zhang will join from the University of Auckland as director of the centre and as professor of...
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Soas to review library layoffs
The School of Oriental and African Studies is to review its decision to sack two prominent librarians in a last-ditch attempt to avert industrial action, writes Phil Baty. At a special governors'...
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The knowledge business goes into boom time
Industry and higher education are uniting to convert the intellectual resources in London's universities into sustainable economic growth and social gains London has global strengths in economic...
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Alison Wolf
Unemployment is rising and things are getting tight over at the Treasury. In the year ahead, the Government will need to spend our money wisely on behalf of UK plc. And where better than in the field...
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Researchers may play dirty to beat REF
Senior academics predict a boom in manipulation of citations under new system. Zoe Corbyn reports.
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Commission Vice-President Günter Verheugen: Promoting the Competitiveness of European Engineering, Orgalime 50th Anniversary
Brussels, 22nd April 2005 Orgalime 50th Anniversary Brussels, 22nd April 2005 Madam President, Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, Let me begin by first of all wishing you happy birthday on this the 50th...
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Parliamentary rapporteur on FP7 welcomes EIT proposal
Brussels, 20 October 2006 Jerzy Buzek, Polish MEP and rapporteur on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) has given a ringing endorsement to the Commission's proposal on establishing a European...
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Published this week
? = review forthcomingART AND DESIGN- Art and Design at Brighton 1859-2009: From Arts and Manufactures to the Creative and Cultural IndustriesEdited by Philippa Lyon, research fellow in the Centre...
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Chemistry round-up
Chemical Structure and Reactivity: An Integrated ApproachAuthors: James Keeler and Peter WothersEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 944Price: £38.99ISBN 9780199289301The authors...
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After the gold rush
Ireland's economic boom brought equally impressive growth in higher education enrolment. But in a chillier fiscal climate, what awaits the Celtic Tiger's universities? Hannah Fearn reports
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Encouraging innovation a key priority in Commission's Energy Green Paper
Brussels, 09 Mar 2006 Stimulating innovation in energy technologies and boosting the European research effort would both be key priorities of a new European Energy Policy, according to plans set out...
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Dressed up to sing and rebel
Chartism
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARCHAEOLOGY- Rome and Environs: An Archaeological GuideBy Filippo Coarelli, professor of Greek and Roman antiquities, University of Perugia, translated by James J. Clauss,...