Current sources for research funding
Each week this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk THE LIBRARY AND INFORMATION COMMISSION www.lic.gov.uk Call for research...
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Facing up to market forces
Universities are waking up to the fact that their position as primary providers of post-secondary knowledge is under attack. Alison Goddard reports on challenges that lie ahead Seven years ago Sir...
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Scots arrive in enterprise zone
Scotland's first Technology Enterprise Show, aimed at helping academics commercialise their research, had a distinct feel of the Tardis to it. A small entrance within Heriot-Watt University's...
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A man with the world at his web feat
Ayala Ochert meets fast-talking WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee. For as long as Tim Berners-Lee can remember, computers have been a natural part of life. His parents met while working on the world's...
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Industrialists and academics envisage licence for skill
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
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Springboks pick up research pace
Spurred by the government, R&D in South Africa is booming, reports Karen MacGregor from Durban South Africans glorify their sporting abilities but otherwise tend to be deeply self-deprecating....
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Arts of gold
The National Lottery has prompted an unprecedented expansion of a cultural sector that already employs almost twice as many people as the motor industry. Sara Selwood reports. The notion of culture...
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Courses for menu-driven TV
To keep pace with a fragmented and revolutionised TV industry, training must innovate and not imitate, argues David Plowright. For the first 40 years of its life, broadcasting was valued more as a...
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Shephard rounds up Employment
The Government has scrapped the Employment Department and divided its duties between the Department for Education and the Department of Trade and Industry. In this week's Cabinet reshuffle, Gillian...
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Euro stars
Industrial Enterprise and European Integration
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Call for chemistry shake-up
Many chemistry departments cannot survive in their present form, says a report by the Royal Society of Chemistry. There are too many undergraduate places; insufficient money to keep up the research...
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Brands hatched
Excellence in Advertising
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Russia's road to modernity
Imperial and Soviet Russia
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Firms 'need digital creativity'
If you want your business to succeed, make creative use of the new digital media. That is the latest word from James Short, associate professor at the London Business School and guru of the early-...
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The future? A pay-your-own-way free-for-all
Imagine tomorrow's world. Then think again. Fari Aklaghi looks at how scenario planning can help you be more realistic. That higher education faces considerable challenges in the near future is...