When the Net gets too hot for commerce to handle
Alistair Chalmers says Internet near meltdowns in the US and Australia offer lessons that the UK's academic network managers must learn Most readers of this piece will be familiar with Janet, the...
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Scots step up a gear
Six higher education institutions in Edinburgh are pioneering a Scottish superhighway scheme which is in the forefront of academic telecommunications. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Napier University,...
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Pundit becomes a prof
Phil Baty talks to Will Hutton, the Observer editor who has recently added an economics professorship to his portfolio. Will Hutton, editor of The Observer and veteran economics correspondent, has...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Lost science jobs lead to standstill
The appointment of France's first scientific council, the Comite d'Orientation Strategique, to advise the government directly on research policy, was marked by 24-hour closures at four major...
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Union mergers make sense for all staff
Higher education is at a crossroads and the need for cooperation between trade unions in higher education has never been more pressing. With unions spanning academic and related support staff, a...
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Gandhi's sartorial message
Clothing Matters
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Water and troubled oil
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate. Ragnar Lofstedt describes how the activists were able...
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Publish and be crammed
Hugh Willmott believes that under the guise of improving efficiency the research assessment exercise has produced a Kafkaesque nonsense of product degradation. "Well, I've already got my four (...
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Nye's neglected baby left in tiers
The National Health Service
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Made and unmade in Britain
The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, Volume One - The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, Volume Three - The Economic History of Britain Since 1700, Volume Two
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Hot air and global warming
Ragnar Lofstedt asks if grand environmental UN conclaves really achieve anything. Global warming is in the news again. Last month signatories to the United Nations convention on climate change came...
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Warts, test rejections and all
Understanding Interdependence - Interpreting Macroeconomics
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Supermarket sweep?
Porridge Ingredients: oats, water, heat. The best porridge is made from pinhead oatmeal, really coarse oatmeal. Put one scoop oatmeal with three scoops water into a pan. Bring to the boil, stirring...
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The fascination of fear
Weekly, the media highlight another threat to human health - from BSE to powdered baby milk. But how much do we really know about such risks? Since 1987 the Society for Risk Analysis - Europe has...