Do the big shots call the shots?
Industry giants put millions of pounds into university research, but what do they expect in return? The THES spotlights three of the big spenders. The aero-engines and industrial power systems maker...
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Designer approach to production line
Encouraging companies to incorporate design in their manufacturing strategy is the aim of Cardiff Institute's innovative Design Engineering Research Centre. Focusing on helping industry to create...
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A 'soft' future of chipped lettuces
New Rules for the New Economy - 10 Ways the Network Economy is Changing Everything
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Research Opportunities - General Engineering
The following listing is for research degrees and jobs in General Engineering #221> . Where possible a central contact person or office contact point has been given. Where there are several...
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Appointments
University of Leeds Os Finnie, finance director of a company within the Blackwell publishing group, general manager of finance; Jim Parry, dean for student support from August 1, 1998: Robert Sladdin...
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Misplaced pressure
Rebel scientist Terence Kealey's failure to win over a well-informed audience at a debate this week in London (page 44) by arguing that government funding of science does more harm than good (and...
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Enter through Real Life, exit in Nude
When the Tate Modern opens in May, will visitors like the radical grouping of art into 'Nude' or 'Object', or simply get lost looking for the masterpieces? asks Karl Sabbagh. Right, the academics'...
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Japan acts to plug its IT gap
The Japanese parliament has passed a new Science and Technology Law in an attempt to secure better funding for university and other public sector research work. Funding for science, the new law...
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Source for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL www...
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Supremo in science plea
Sir William Stewart, former chief scientific adviser to the Cabinet Office, has called for a full-time Scottish chief scientific adviser "with clout" to ensure that science and technology north of...
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Weave ideas for material change
Organisational learning is far more difficult to achieve than individual learning, since knowledge has to be shared and woven into an institution's very fabric. Ideally, organisational learning...
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Agencies hold regional key
WITH a hint of irony, perhaps, the Dearing committee report, in its chapter on the local and regional roles of higher education, concluded that, compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, "in...
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Kickstart for small business
Small firms are to be the main beneficiaries of a host of measures to boost the competitiveness of British industry. They will get the lion's share of Pounds 200 million, of which Pounds 125 million...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk European Commission http://www.echo.lu/ iap/ Call for proposals to...
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When outsiders take over the IT
DURHAM University's motivation in outsourcing its computing services (THES, May 1) and the knock-on effect are of concern to the Universities and Colleges Information Services Association. The stated...