The men with their fingers on the pulse
Improvedcareer prospects and the ability to show a caring side are turning men to nursing. Claire Sanders reports. Jonathan Shaw was attracted to nursing by the prospect of a structured career. After...
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Thinkers may get control of ideas
Thousands of civil service researchers could have their contracts amended to allow them to make money from commercialising intellectual property generated by their work. Whitehall sources said the...
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Scotland scores first with virtual conference
Peter Helms's bedside manner leaves a lot to be desired. Aberdeen University's professor of child health ignores a young mother as she struggles into his clinic with a baby and pushchair, refuses to...
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High-tech star to lead Stanford
A computer scientist and engineer who started his own high-tech company and has a record of coaxing huge donations out of California's Silicon Valley has been chosen as the next president of Stanford...
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Unchartered waters
The Chartered Institute for Management Accountants launched a new qualification designed to address e-business demands at a London conference last Friday. The institute plans to ensure its members...
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Talent scouts
The Talent Foundation, backed by the Royal Society for the Arts, has published an e-talent declaration, already signed by leading public and private organisations. The declaration sets out a vision...
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IT doesn't crash
British and Swiss scientists have developed a robot with an electronic visual system based on that of a locust, enabling it to behave like a swarming insect and avoid collisions with objects. Claire...
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European first
The Instituto de Empresa in Spain has become Europe's first management school to introduce a complete degree in e-business. The course, oversubscribed more than eight times, is already one of the...
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Best foot forward
(Photograph) - Best foot forward: as old business models buckle under the onslaught of a commerce, lecturers at Hull Business School are developing a course to help students develop ways of tackling...
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Foreign trade tips
Overseas recruitment succeeds mainly on she strength of British education's reputation and she British Councils corporate role. Is has little to do wish individual institutions' overall efforts "...
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Foreign trade tips
British universities have so deal wish a higher exchange rate, higher standards of entry and a slower central admissions system for undergraduates compared with their competitor countries. They have...
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Ability is logical entry password
I hold no brief for anyone who selects students on grounds of social or ethnic background. but is it so unreasonable that ability should be a prime criterion for entry so higher education ('Class-...
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The wrong Bath
Darren King did not study creative writing at Bath University but at Bath Spa University College ("The agent's view", Student Matters, THES, March 31). His novel, Boxy An Star, which was shortlisted...
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No, not Natfhe's
Although lecturers' union Natfhe's finances are much improved in recent years, we cannot claim to have financed Birzeit University's food safety unit as the Monday entry in Don's Diary (THES, April 7...
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Retired get into gear
Many retired academics will agree with the results and suggestions of the survey undertaken by Barbara Tizard ("When are retired academics not?", THES, March 24). Among the retirement shocks for the...