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Idealism trodden in rush to market?
Academic alliances are strained as rivals pile on pressure. Clashes between commerce and universities seem inevitable following a series of deals that could result in potential conflicts of interest...
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Fellowships
Cardiff University Honorary fellowships: Claude Allegre, French minister of education, research and technology; David Cooksey, chair of the university's Challenge Fund Steering Group; Ieuan Evans,...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Academy of Engineering has given fellowships to: Anthony Ball, director of materials engineering, University of Cape Town; Yvonne Barton, chairman of British Gas Asia Pacific Pte Limited;...
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Uneasy? He's here to help
Graduate students in politics, economics, IT and the social sciences all turn to the same man. Martin Ince meets Manuel Castells Manuel Castells may go one better in his analysis of the information...
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A massacre in Eden
Over millions of years the fauna and flora of North America have evolved in time with continental shifts. But these changes pale when compared with the devastating impact made by man, writes Tim...
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The country en suite, en masse
Twentieth Century British Social Trends
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Genetic equation doesn't add up
The Maths Gene
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Dick Bird
NEVER THE SAME AGAIN. A history of the VSO. 206pp. Cambridge: Lutterworth. Pounds 25 (paperback, Pounds 15). - 0 7188 2975 1. I am sure young Americans would learn a good deal in this country...
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Chronicle of crises that's soft and noisy
World Disasters Report
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Star Turn
With space toys that look like something from the Early-Learning Centre, Surrey University is rivalling Nasa. Pat Leon meets the man putting Surrey into orbit A youngish man clutching a metal...
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Moguls court U21
MELBOURNE The global network of higher education institutions, Universitas 21, is negotiating partnerships with at least five international corporations over its plan to run courses over the internet...
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A shift in Europe's border conflicts
Academia is putting the post-communist states on its map. Michael Waller reports RENEWED tension in Kosovo and the banning of the Welfare Party in Turkey cannot but push the Islamic question higher...
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Beijing takes the software pearl in Macau's crown
Next month, China extends its borders and gains the world-class software institute where Jonathan Bowen has just spent the summer Macau is only an hour's hydrofoil ride from Hong Kong across the...
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Prejudice behind the pomp and baubles
Both rank and race dictated imperial order, writes John MacKenzie. Ornamentalism is a brave title. It might be construed as reflecting just surface pattern and design, the arabesques that gladden the...