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AustraliaPerformance 'compact' unveiledThe Australian Government is to tie teaching and research performance to negotiated "compact agreements" with universities in an effort to encourage distinct...
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGN- The New York School Poets and the Neo-Avant-Garde between Radical Art and Radical ChicBy Mark Silverberg, associate professor of American literature, Cape Breton University, Canada....
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Ministries split over value of funding second degrees
One government department is at loggerheads with another over cuts in funding for students studying second degrees, it emerged this week.Correspondence leaked to ̽»¨ÊÓƵ reveals that...
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Plan eyes incentives to help the economy
Mandelson's talk of sector raising skills in key economic areas worries leaders. John Gill reports
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A shot across the bow
Publishers see every download of a pirate copy of a textbook as a sale lost. Now they are fighting back against the bookaneers, writes Rebecca Attwood
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University scholarships signal ‘new era’ in Anglo-Iraqi relations
In London, Prime Minister Maliki unveils a raft of initiatives to strengthen ties with the UK higher education sector, while in Basra, British forces withdraw. John Gill reports
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Philippe Busquin: Plus de femmes pour la rercherche industrielle en Europe Conférence "Women in industrial research" Berlin, 10 octobre 2003
Berlin, 10 octobre 2003 Monsieur le Secrétaire d'Etat, Monsieur le Président-Directeur Général, Mesdames, Messieurs, A mon tour, je voudrais vous remercier d'être venus si nombreux et d'aussi loin 40...
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Philippe Busquin: Plus de femmes pour la rercherche industrielle en Europe Conférence "Women in industrial research" Berlin, 10 octobre 2003
Berlin, 10 octobre 2003 Monsieur le Secrétaire d'Etat, Monsieur le Président-Directeur Général, Mesdames, Messieurs, A mon tour, je voudrais vous remercier d'être venus si nombreux et d'aussi loin 40...
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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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CBI queries skills plan
The director-general of the Confederation of British Industry has cast doubt on the Government's flagship policy to increase university- level skills in the workplace. Richard Lambert said businesses...
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The market charge
Did necessity or ideology drive thinking behind Browne and the CSR, and will unleashing student/consumer demand improve or imperil the sector? Simon Baker investigates
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Overseas briefing
AustraliaAssaults may batter marketA series of physical attacks on foreign students have left Australia dangerously close to sanctions that could lead to the collapse of its international student...
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Appointments
A former senior adviser to the Treasury, Caroline Barr, has been appointed the new head of policy at the Russell Group. As well as having held the post of senior policy adviser, Ms Barr also worked...
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Elephant In the Boardroom: The Causes of Leadership DerailmentBy Adrian Furnham, professor of psychology, University College London. Palgrave Macmillan, £25.00. ISBN...
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Focus on basic skills training not HE, say MPs
Committee cites downturn in calling for Government to drop participation targets. Hannah Fearn reports