A real fast-track procedure
A pilot scheme aims to take medical advances out of the lab and into practice more quickly, writes Zoe Corbyn
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThirteen projects will share more than ?300,000 under the Science and Heritage Research Clusters Scheme. The other winners were listed last week.Award winner: A.M...
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Kiwi culture goes GLAM
Wellington was once a town where espresso was dangerously pretentious, but an innovative alliance of galleries, libraries, archives and museums has helped rebrand the New Zealand city
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The long march
China is hungry for Western-style universities, not least to fuel its economy. Phil Baty reports on the efforts to uproot corruption and bureaucracy and build a dynamic and vibrant world-class system
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Republic of Drivers: A Cultural History of Automobility in America
Despite the American automobile industry's catastrophic decline in popularity, profits and market share, there has been no shortage of scholarly analyses of its historical importance. If pioneering...
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Research management must walk before it runs
The profession must take small steps to build its standing, a study has found. Zo? Corbyn reports
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Malaysia: full of Western promise
UK institutions seeking to consolidate their position overseas are discovering Malaysia's potential. John Gill reports from Kuala Lumpur
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Published this week
EDUCATION- Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do LanguagesBy Jo Carr, senior lecturer, School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology, and...
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Tara Brabazon: 60 seconds of scholarship
One day, I intend to conduct a study of how university staff download from iTunes. Do vice-chancellors – productively and efficiently – swoop into the site, grab the top ten lectures from iTunes U...
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Appointments
The University of Wales, Lampeter has named Medwin Hughes vice-chancellor, as part of plans to merge the institution with Trinity University College to create the University of Wales: Trinity Saint...
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Queen's Birthday Honours 2009
Knights BachelorProfessor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran. Professor and head of obstetrics and gynaecology and president, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. For services to medicine. (London...
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Cultural, media and gender studies round-up
Understanding Cultural GlobalizationAuthor: Paul HopperEdition: FirstPublisher: PolityPages: 240Price: ?50.00 and ?15.99ISBN 9780745635576 and 5583Hopper, reader in the School of Historical and...
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The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World
In this thought-provoking book, Amar Bhide challenges the "technonationalist" view that America's comparative advantage lies in technological leadership and the associated "alarmist" fears that, as...
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Cross-sector approach to foster skills training
The Government has become too focused on the role that universities can play in improving the skills of the UK workforce, at the expense of further education colleges, which are often better placed...
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Tara Brabazon: Book to the future: how bookshops can survive
The internet does not have to spell disaster for the publishing industry: Tara Brabazon visits the San Francisco bookstore that holds out hope