Parties go to battle on skills
The Tories launched their white paper Learning to Compete this week to Labour cries that they stole its ideas. 91茄子 POLITICAL battle for the educational high ground stepped up a gear this week as the...
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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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Millennium magic
This week the government published its plans for lifelong learning and its responses to both the Kennedy and the Dearing reports. Below, The 91茄子S examines reaction to the first two, while on the...
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Tories need a vision to stay on Earth
AS91茄子Y gathered in Blackpool this week, the Tories resembled nothing so much as Mir - an ageing, crumbling listed building in outer space without a working guidance system, from which bits...
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Weed 'em and reap
Journal of Vegetable Crop Production (twice a year)
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Stubbing out the truth
As the extent of British science's collusion with the tobacco giants becomes clear, American medic Stanton Glantz tells of his battle for academic freedom and the right to publish secret documents...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight, this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk European Union Fourth Research & Technological...
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A few that got away
Does the research assessment exercise get you down? Do you dream of jacking it all in for a job in the real world? Kate Worsley talks to some of those who have made the leap from the ivory tower and...
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Guiding cleverness
The Management of Expertise
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Banking on change - the only safe investment
Professional bodies must lead rather than follow to stay relevant, says Gavin Shreeve PROFESSIONAL bodies in financial services which have as their remit the task of educating practitioners are...
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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 91茄子SIS, The 91茄子S Internet Service (...
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One year older and no richer
Labour has achieved much in its first year in office. Potentially most significant is its success in carrying through John Major's initiative and securing a peace deal in Northern Ireland - if...
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View from the Fens Windows
Roger Needham is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge millions. Tony Durham asks how he will spend them Microsoft is not the first computing...
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New spins on the web
HELPING to judge the 1997 UCISA Web Awards was an eye opener. I thought I knew fairly well what British academics are doing on the web. But impressive new sites had appeared. Familiar ones had grown...
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Library chief berates selfish universities
"University libraries can't cope anymore," said Matthew Evans, chairman of Faber and Faber and head of the Library and Information Commission. "The signs on the university library doors say 'members...