Report opposed by academics
A group of 1,400 Canadian academics have put their name to a letter that urges prime minister Jean Chretien to reject a report on university commercialisation. The Canadian Association of University...
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The frosty welcome is part of the package
A group of glaciologists has escaped the British weather for somewhere... colder. In the fourth article on what researchers do in the summer, Bryn Hubbard reports from the Arctic island of...
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Avoid logging on to despair
A sceptical Dorothy Zinberg faces the dark side of internet euphoria and urges a little cyber restraint. Long before the Nasdaq's unexpected 50 per cent plunge almost a year ago, I had begun to...
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Digging the dirt on coal conflict
Strikes and Solidarity
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Elite logs out of e-university
A complete rethink of the government's proposed e-university risks repeating the problems of the University for Industry. Plans for an elite core of institutions to lead the project - unveiled as...
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Cutting edge
David Wield Director of the Centre for Technology Strategy and chair of the development policy and practice group at the Open University If biotechnology innovators want to be successful, they should...
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How to get a job in science policy
Tired of doing research? Why not switch camps and helpdecide who gets the vital funding In universities all over the country, one of the great topics of common-room conversation is the allocation of...
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Commissioner Philippe Busquin welcomes Prime Ministers Blair and Kok's call for increased business investment in R&D
Brussels, 21 February 2002 In a letter to José Maria Aznar, President of the European Council, Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Wim Kok have called for determined action by the EU and its Member States...
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Some still pursue desire to teach
Your leader ("Please sir, why should anyone want to teach?" THES, October 2) stated that "too few want to be teachers", yet evidence from the post-compulsory sector would appear to contradict this....
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Commission Communication: Civil protection - Progress made in implementing the programme for preparedness for possible emergencies
Brussels, 14 June 2002 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Civil protection - Progress made in implementing the programme for preparedness for possible...
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Radical change warning
THE government is determined to "modernise and refocus" the higher education establishment, a conference on lifelong learning was told this week. "If the government can sweep to power and change the...
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Racism is not bred in a brain
Ethnic minorities find the UK film and TV industry shut to them, says Sara Wajid, but Geoff Watts reports on an experiment proving that racism is not hard wired. Stripped of its layers of ham,...
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Henry V leads businessmen unto the breach
A CEO in search of excellence should avoid the insipid management books in airport bookstores and turn to Shakespeare - so Richard Olivier believes. Huw Richards reports. " We few, we happy few, we...
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Sainsbury cash talk cheers up scientists
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Gordon Brown: 'The new economy of the next decade will need more competition, more entrepreneurship, more flexibility,...
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New learning and teaching body set to reward excellence
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines EXCELLENCE in teaching is to be rewarded through a new strategy announced by the ÌÇÐÄVlog...