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Northwest rises to the challenge
A group of universities is leading the drive to be at the centre of wealth creation. Kam Patel reports. The government's push to make universities more entrepreneurial should be allied to a...
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Cutting edge
David Wield Director of the Centre for Technology Strategy and chair of the development policy and practice group at the Open University If biotechnology innovators want to be successful, they should...
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Queen's Birthday honours
Knights. Anthony Atkinson, warden of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, for services to economics; Roderick MacSween, former president of the Royal College of Pathologists and chairman of the...
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Trial Aids vaccine works on monkeys
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers The...
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APPOINTMENTS University of Edinburgh Professoressor James Ironside has assumed the role of Director of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit. Under management restructuring plans...
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Joining up for the genome
If Genome Valley is to ever become a reality, academia, industry and government must form a coherent strategy, say George Poste and Robin Fears A recent THES editorial (January 15) focused on the...
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Bridging cultural space big enough to test Nasa
The key to success for the GLA and London is partnership with educational institutions, says Trevor Phillips In public school novels, the boys of School House (or whatever) seldom stray off the...
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Pots of gold at the end of regional rainbows
Rich rewards are waiting for higher education institutions that plug into industry and play their part fully in regional development, says Richard Brown Involving higher education more in local...
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Digging the dirt on coal conflict
Strikes and Solidarity
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To get the people in, first listen
Mary Stuart knows at first hand the life of the inner-city poor. Now a Sussex pro vice-chancellor, she is determined to give them every chance to attend university, writes Pat Leon. Mary Stuart was a...
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Year of the dragon
Welsh centres of expertise are linking research innovators with businesses. Iola Smith reports on an initiative that is already attracting interest from abroad Europe lags behind the US and Japan in...
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OECD sparks hike in research
Denmark has announced a new national research strategy in an attempt to meet criticism from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development three years ago. Jytte Hilden, research minister...
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Chairs
University College of St Martin, Lancaster The following have been appointed to chairs: Colin Richards, former visiting professor at the University of Newcastle and HMI for Ofsted; Mike Walsh, former...
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Risks in overseas liaisons
When universities link up with institutions abroad, they can get more than they bargained for. Matthew Chapman reports. When it comes to promoting their courses, United States higher education...