Ministers plan to teach v-cs leadership skills
Vice-chancellors will be taught how to run universities under plans being developed by the English funding council, Universities UK and the Standing Conference of Principals. The government's higher...
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Take my advice, boy, forget scholarship if you want to get ahead
Dear Adam, So you're considering a career in academia but are worried about the prospects. Don't be. So many good people have already been turned off that prospects for the less than good have never...
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Take my advice, boy, forget scholarship if you want to get ahead
Dear Adam, So you're considering a career in academia but are worried about the prospects. Don't be. So many good people have already been turned off that prospects for the less than good have never...
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What enriches the poor and liberates the oppressed?
Globalisation - so stop protesting and learn to love it, argues Jagdish Bhagwati. With all the noise made by vast numbers of anti-globalisers, most politicians may be forgiven for thinking that this...
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What enriches the poor and liberates the oppressed?
Globalisation - so stop protesting and learn to love it, argues Jagdish Bhagwati. With all the noise made by vast numbers of anti-globalisers, most politicians may be forgiven for thinking that this...
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Love at first byte
Chemistry was not for Grainne Conole but technology inspired her and she is now a champion of e-learning. But this growing breed of professional is not getting a fair bite at the academic cake, as...
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FP7 needs a programme for the new Member States, says Hungarian innovation expert
Brussels, Apr 2004 Despite their strength in many areas of basic research and higher education, the EU's ten new Member States are some way behind the rest of Europe in terms of innovation and...
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RAE 2008: A nod to new blood and a warning to gameplayers
With the rules for the 2008 RAE in place, Anthea Lipsett and Tony Tysome assess the key changes and their impact on departments and individuals The final ground rules that will be used to judge...
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Provisional Version Competitiveness Counci (Research) 26 November (full report)
Brussels, 26 Nov 2003 IMPROVING COMPETITIVENESS AND GROWTH - Council Conclusions The Council adopted the following Conclusions: "The Council 1. RECALLING the conclusions of the European Council...
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Provisional Version Competitiveness Counci (Research) 26 November (full report)
Brussels, 26 Nov 2003 IMPROVING COMPETITIVENESS AND GROWTH - Council Conclusions The Council adopted the following Conclusions: "The Council 1. RECALLING the conclusions of the European Council...
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Space: EU and European Space Agency sign co-operation agreement
Brussels, 25 November 2003 On the heels of the launch of the White Paper on Space, European space policy took another leap forward as the European Community (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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Space: EU and European Space Agency sign co-operation agreement
Brussels, 25 November 2003 On the heels of the launch of the White Paper on Space, European space policy took another leap forward as the European Community (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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New journal aims to teach entrepreneurship
Brussels, 10 Dec 2002 A group of international professors are launching a journal to teach potential innovators how to be entrepreneurial. The International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education (...
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Commissioner Erkki Liikanen: "EU-India Opportunities: The IST Programme", 2004 Euro India Co-operation Forum on the Information Society, New Delhi, 25 March 2004
The political environment for research In Europe, we want to become a more competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy. To achieve this, we need to focus on European-wide investment in research...
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Affinity, that Elusive Dream