G8 members commit to lifelong learning
Leaders of the world's industrial nations have signed a charter outlining their common goals on lifelong learning. G8 members signed the charter at their recent summit in Germany. It says that...
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Currency before exchange
UK universities prefer fee-paying students to European ones. Anne Corbett laments our policy on mobility. Is it an idea whose time has come - that British students catch up with their continental...
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Draft conclusions of CREST meeting (scientific and technical research), 8 February 2002
Brussels, 8 March 2002 Scientific and Technical Research Committee ­ CREST Secretariat. Draft summary conclusions of the 281st meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (...
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The price of success
Although R&D is vital to the bottom line, many British companies seem still not to have got the message. Martin Ince reports Are British companies finally getting enthusiastic about spending...
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Glittering prizes
Kate Storey , a principal investigator who runs a research group in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, has received a five-year senior non-clinical fellowship worth £900,000...
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From today's UK papers
Literacy teaching still inadequate, says Ofsted Around 40 per cent of seven-year-olds cannot read and write properly because their teachers are not using the right methods and the government's...
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In the news
The key contender to succeed Henry McLeish as Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning is Wendy Alexander, dubbed "the pint-sized policy powerhouse". Noted for her...
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V-cs: London costs a deterrent
Vice-chancellors at London universities have told London mayor Ken Livingstone that exorbitant housing costs and a failing transport system are threatening the future of their institutions. The...
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Research top of political agenda
PM Howard puts knowledge economy centre stage in green paper. University research and research training are issues flying high on Australia's political agenda. More than a decade after the last...
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Cash is lavished on RAE giants
Key points Extra £1.25 billion for research by 2005-06 Research to be concentrated in top universities New RAE rating for top research departments PhD funding criteria to encourage concentration...
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Who supports Man. united?
Alison Utley reports on plans for a super-university and a refashioned Northumbria. Britain's first super-university came a step closer this week as the University of Manchester and the University of...
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Uniting a nation with bridge and brochure
Bosnia is not an obvious holiday destination, but Chris Bunting reports on a scheme that aims to use tourism to heal the country's ethnic rifts. On the morning of November 9 1993, a tank shell...
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Bath loses research cash as Warwick poaches staff
The University of Warwick's business school has poached seven top researchers from Bath University, and in doing so has prevented Bath from claiming credit for any work completed by the team - headed...
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No profit in conflict
Vice-chancellors must steer clear of personal commercial involvement, argues Gillian Evans When you become vice-chancellor of a high-profile university that has announced that it wants to build links...