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Contemporary Europe and the Atlantic Alliance
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Smooth oil for troubled waters
Aberdeen University could help prevent a rerun of the Brent Spar controversy, in which Shell and Greenpeace clashed over the strategy for decommissioning the floating oil installation, with a new...
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Japan acts to plug its IT gap
The Japanese parliament has passed a new Science and Technology Law in an attempt to secure better funding for university and other public sector research work. Funding for science, the new law...
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Media courses scrapped in shake-up at BFI
The British Film Institute is pulling out of its involvement in providing media degree courses as part of a big shake-up of its education programme. The institute currently delivers an MA in film and...
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Weave ideas for material change
Organisational learning is far more difficult to achieve than individual learning, since knowledge has to be shared and woven into an institution's very fabric. Ideally, organisational learning...
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AUT call to action over pay
The Association of University Teachers has agreed to prepare for industrial action, including one-day strikes, if its pay demands are not met, writes Harriet Swain. Members at the winter council...
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Talent-spotting for equity and excellence
The University of Cape Town is taking radical steps to prove that excellence is not the preserve of white males, says vice-chancellor Mampehla Ramphele Will all the civil wars, bombs and industrial...
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Shephard rounds up Employment
The Government has scrapped the Employment Department and divided its duties between the Department for Education and the Department of Trade and Industry. In this week's Cabinet reshuffle, Gillian...
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Mexico shows big is not always better
A NEW research centre in Mexico City has been asked to investigate the relationship between students' study habits and their exam results. In a country where libraries are inadequate, books are...
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Britannia tries to rule the brain waves
Britain is making renewed efforts to sell its further and higher education "products" in up to 30 expanding export markets where competition is fierce. The Department of Trade and Industry and the...
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Kickstart for small business
Small firms are to be the main beneficiaries of a host of measures to boost the competitiveness of British industry. They will get the lion's share of Pounds 200 million, of which Pounds 125 million...
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Chairs
Aston University David Parker, senior lecturer and co-director of the research centre for industrial strategy at Birmingham University, has been appointed professor of business economics and strategy...
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Move to mark fails as passes was 'a mistake'
VICE chancellor Mike Fitzgerald has admitted that an internal Thames Valley University memorandum ordering assessors to turn student fails into passes was amistake. In a frank interview with The THES...
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Radical reform of post-16 predicted
The government wants to shake up post-compulsory education in England. Tony Tysome and Phil Baty look at who stays and who may go Post-16 education and training in England is facing "the most...
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Designer approach to production line
Encouraging companies to incorporate design in their manufacturing strategy is the aim of Cardiff Institute's innovative Design Engineering Research Centre. Focusing on helping industry to create...