France plays drugs catch-up
Britain's success in exploiting academic research in biotechnology attracted envy across the Channel a few years ago, where the head of French chemical giant Rhone-Poulence decided it was time to...
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A cutting edge waiting for sharp young minds
In the first of a series on jobs for the new millennium, Ayala Ochert examines bioinformatics and its dearth of skilled practitioners One of the most important jobs for a scientist is the accurate...
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Masters of the patent game
Sue Foden, head of the Cancer Research Campaign's technology transfer arm,tells Kam Patel how its income has grown tenfold in a decade In the early 1980s there were precious few biotechnology firms,...
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Grants
University of Liverpool, continued Professor G. Hutchings, Pounds 52,969 from EPSRC (computer design of improved alumina catalyst supports by predictive modelling of solgelprocedures) and Pounds 44,...
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Eight indicted for student murder
EIGHT university employees have been indicted for the murder of Marta Russo, the 22-year-old student who was shot dead last year outside the law faculty buildings of Rome's La Sapienza University....
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Keele star chief fights sack
THE head of Keele University's only 5-star rated research department has been sacked for gross misconduct. Peter Rolfe, head of Keele's hospital-based bioengineering and medical physics department,...
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The quality street to cash
A CLOSER link between higher education quality ratings and funding is being considered amid fears of government pressure for a new cash-for-results system. Quality Assurance Agency heads met with...
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V-cs bid to curb extremism
UNIVERSITIES can ban extremist groups on campus if they pose a threat to safety, vice chancellors argue, writes Tony Tysome. A working group chaired by University of London vice chancellor Graham...
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Awards
Royal Academy of Engineering Awards were presented to the following graduates on December 8: Lesley Ashburner, University of Newcastle; Grant Biggam, Heriot-Watt University; Huw Evans, University of...
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Promotions
University of Wales, Cardiff The following former seniorlecturers have been promoted to readerships: David Carter, school of molecular and medical biosciences; Robin Fawcett, director of the...
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New staff forced to sign away options
Newly appointed administrators at a Nova Scotia university are required to sign undated letters of resignation in a management practice which would make most academics bristle. For more than three...
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Customer power rewards teaching
A PROFESSOR's ability to teach is becoming more important than his or her research output to many university hiring and promotion committees in the United States. Politicians and parents have been...
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Unregulated market plan triggers union fury
AUSTRALIA'S academics have attacked a government report on higher education's future, describing it as shallow, doctrinaire and based on unfounded assumptions. In the first shot of what is certain to...
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Minister calls for overhaul
French education minister Claude Allegre has suggested that a shorter second degree programme similar to a masters in the United States may be needed to modernise the French education system....
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Short cuts lead to 'miserabilism'
A critical review of the socio-economic upheavals across Eastern Europe since the collapse of communism is emerging in universities in the region. The heady days of transition from strictly...