Sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS. www.environment...
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`This is a time for broad thinking'
The Economic and Social Research Council has identified nine key themes to guide it into the next millennium. Kam Patel reports Nine research themes, ranging from the behaviour of the national and...
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Building blocks
The Construction Company in and out of Recession
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Can spin-outs reap returns?
Having a stake in a Pounds 150 million firm might sound pretty appealing to the average academic, but the path to the successful spin-out can be strewn with obstacles. Martin Ince reports Academics...
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Blackstone promises no dilution of A levels
The Government will not "water down the standard of A levels", education and employment minister Tessa Blackstone insisted this week. Baroness Blackstone was keen to appease her detractors amid...
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Prussian animated by English sewage
Justus von Liebig
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Campaigning v-cs push for a new deal
Welcome spending spree. Universities, science and further education say what more money will mean THE government's decision to direct new funds to higher education following its comprehensive...
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Danes unveil research plan
Danish research should in future concentrate on the environment, health, information technology, the social sciences, the arts and other areas that will ensure sustainable development based on...
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Realising the dream
Human nature being what it is, we may live in a new world but we react in ways shaped by an old one. New visions may inspire but getting there is hard. So found Harold Wilson 30 years ago as his...
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The patchy wealth of nations
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
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Collaboration is the future
"PLUS ca change, plus c'est la meme chose" was possibly not an expression used by Tony Blair in his recent speech to the French National Assembly in Paris. But it is a fitting starting point for my...
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War on gulf between rich and poor
HIGHER education should reach all those parts of society it has not previously reached. There should be no place in Scotland where people assume it is not for them. The case for this policy is...
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Agenda for a better world
Federico Mayor, Unesco's director general, sets the scene for next week's World Conference on Science in Budapest In seeking a new relationship between science and society, the United Nations...
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Cuts fuel campus disputes
Cuts and restructuring are causing upheaval in universities countrywide. Thes reporters look at four hotspots. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON BAILIFFS evicted 35 students on Tuesday from buildings at the...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Bangor Jenny Thomas, senior lecturer in the department of linguistics and modern English language at the University of Lancaster, has been appointed professor of linguistics from...