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Whoever the political winners and losers of the Greater London Assembly elections may be, one winning profession is academia. Five of the 25 members of the London Assembly have university links,...
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Free hand that draws inspiration from peers
A Cologne design course where no one tells students what to do is a teaching model. Pat Leon reports. Cologne Design School is still turning teaching upside down ten years after its creation. It was...
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Staring into space
European leaders want to integrate public space efforts into other activities. Jane Marshall reports. Space is no longer a separate entity, and space exploration must be fused with other activities...
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Wake up and smell the (fair trade) coffee, Mr President
Globalisation has much to offer our society, argues Grazia Ietto-Gillies, but it requires responsible governance if we are to reverse the trends of third-world exploitation and environmental damage...
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Autonomy row hits LSE as sponsor axes research
A row over the commercialisation of university research and academic freedom has erupted at the London School of Economics following the decision of a major research sponsor to prematurely pull the...
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Great idea, but what's in it for us?
The government says regional development agencies will be the engines of enterprise. However, as Tony Tysome explains, the advantages for higher education are unclear and rather unexciting Chancellor...
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Caution: do not use life-saving substance
Pandora's Poison
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Lecturers protest at 2,000 job cuts
Two thousand jobs are under threat in new universities and course closures are blocking access to key degree subjects such as languages and social work for working-class communities, lecturers' union...
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Why we should spurn equality and meritocracy
Against Equality of Opportunity
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Dispatches from the front
Scenes from the End - A War to be Won
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European drive for post-genomic research: European Commission awards €39.4 million to three large-scale projects
Brussels, 19 March 2002 In a drive to gear up research on genomics - the study of genes and their function - the European Commission has awarded €39.4 million to three large research projects. The...
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Dr. Franz FISCHLER: Approaching the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops in the EU, Roundtable on research results relating to the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops
Dr. Franz FISCHLER: Approaching the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops in the EU, Roundtable on research results relating to the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops Brussels, 24 April 2003 Ladies...
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British struggle with innovation
Many British firms are struggling with what innovation means despite almost universal recognition that it is critical to making companies and nations more competitive, according to a newly published...
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French PM moves to promote innovation
France is to break down the legal barriers separating public research and private industry and introduce tax and other financial breaks to support the creation of high-tech and other innovatory...