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The Impact of Privatisation
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The guru in the quad
John Kay is stepping down as chairman of consultancy London Economics and stepping into controversy as director of Oxford's school of management studies. Romesh Vaitilingam reports on the Tony Blair...
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Campuses urged to strip assets
A leading Australian business analyst and forecaster has urged universities to sell off all their property holdings, with an estimated worth of up to Aus$10 billion (Pounds 5 billion), and use the...
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Courting business is key to progress
Research chief Luciano Criscuoli tells Paul Bompard the government is encouraging the private sector to help fund more research projects After almost 20 years at the Ministry for Universities and...
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Collaboration is the future
"PLUS ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" was possibly not an expression used by Tony Blair in his recent speech to the French National Assembly in Paris. But it is a fitting starting point for my...
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Campaigning v-cs push for a new deal
Welcome spending spree. Universities, science and further education say what more money will mean THE government's decision to direct new funds to higher education following its comprehensive...
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Monarch of glen takes the high road
Brian Duffield, dean of the faculty of cultural and education studies at Leeds Metropolitan University, has been appointed chief executive of UHI Ltd, the body taking forward plans for a new...
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Visions of a synchronised continent
This week's Royal Society 'Science in Society' meeting, Science Funding: The European Dimension, covered both national and EU-wide issues. You can hear it all at THESIS, The THES Internet Service (...
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Springboks pick up research pace
Spurred by the government, R&D in South Africa is booming, reports Karen MacGregor from Durban South Africans glorify their sporting abilities but otherwise tend to be deeply self-deprecating....
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A man with the world at his web feat
Ayala Ochert meets fast-talking WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee. For as long as Tim Berners-Lee can remember, computers have been a natural part of life. His parents met while working on the world's...
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The long march to capitalism
Growing out of the Plan
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Bonnie fechters
A Future for Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog
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Cuts threaten bacteria fight
Scientists at the United Kingdom's leading food research establishment have warned that Government cuts in funding threaten their future ability to respond to crisis such as the recent outbreak of E....
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Shephard rounds on CBI
Top business leaders were lambasted by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, this week for failing to give a clear signal about what employers want from the higher...
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Can spin-outs reap returns?
Having a stake in a Pounds 150 million firm might sound pretty appealing to the average academic, but the path to the successful spin-out can be strewn with obstacles. Martin Ince reports Academics...