Italians rethink industry research links
Italian universities are showing signs of backing away from their strategy of developing industrially-orientated undergraduate courses in favour of a general education followed by specialist...
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Campus round-up
Hot stuffResearchers have been awarded 拢765,000 for a three-year study into the physical processes behind the super-hot ionised plasma that appears on the Sun. The Science and Technology Facilities...
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Short and the long of it
The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright
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International students like to be where someone knows their name
Family ties are a big influence on which location people choose for study. Julie Hare reports
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Finnish Minister of Trade and Industry Mauri Pekkarinen: Growing resources for a green future - investing in science and technology (link)
Helsinki, 20 October 2006 Growing resources for a green future - investing in science and technology Speech by Minister of Trade and Industry Mauri Pekkarinen European Conference on Biorefinery...
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Commission Communication - Innovation policy: updating the Union's approach in the context of the Lisbon strategy
Brussels, 14 Mar 2003 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Innovation policy:...
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Bruising but beneficial
The coalition's controversial higher education reforms are delivering a more progressive and sustainable system, argues Vince Cable
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Appointments
Bucks New UniversityTheo GavrielidesBucks New University has appointed Theo Gavrielides visiting professor in youth policy at its School of Social Sciences, Primary Care and Education and made him a...
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Sandel on values when everything鈥檚 for sale
Matthew Reisz meets Harvard superstar Michael Sandel to discuss the preservation of the public good
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News in brief
A-level reformsOnce a year is enough, says sectorStudents in England will no longer be able to sit A-level exams in January, Ofqual has said. From September 2013, students starting their courses will...
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Access and excellence, locally and globally
In an era of disinvestment in the US鈥 public universities, the greatest of their number has improved its reputation through creativity, entrepreneurialism and innovation, says Robert Birgeneau
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Conference on Industrial Technologies - European manufacturing of the future, 1-2 December, Milan
Brussels, 22 Sep 2003 A major conference on 'European Manufacturing of the Future: role of research and education for European leadership' is being organised by the Commission in Milan on 1 and 2...
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Appointments - 28 March 2013
University of LeedsPaul Stewart鈥淚 had a tear in my eye,鈥 said the new dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds of the moment he learned of his appointment, which will take him back...
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Awards and promotions
University of LeedsPaul Stewart鈥淚 had a tear in my eye,鈥 said the new dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds of the moment he learned of his appointment, which will take him back...
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Loud and clear
Researchers didn't hold back when EPSRC head Paul Golby asked for feedback on the council's workings. Things will improve, he vows