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Was it worth it, Ron?
One year after Ron Dearing published his report on the future of higher education, Alan Thomson asks him if he accepts the charge that its 1,700 pages have turned out to be a costly white elephant It...
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Guru hailed as a world-wide Weber
Worldly wise 9. The information age will widen the gap between rich and poor and erode the power of the state, Manuel Castells tells Martin Ince, on the Internet Not many academics would be upset at...
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Paymasters blunt the cutting edge
Mike Presdee tells Alison Utley how an Australian state government tried to suppress his research Academic freedom has always been under threat from some predator or other, but as universities...
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Students lead the third way
Campus radicalism never died it just got bored with party politics and found salvation in single issues such as animal welfare and rent levels Are students as radical as they used to be? In May, the...
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Prescott directs drivers to the fee-way
Is John Prescott on the right track by wanting to charge drivers to bring their cars into our congested cities? Kam Patel talks to academic experts about the first transport white paper in 20 years...
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From persecution to prosecution
Oxford academics are up in arms over government immigration policy. At their head is philosopher Michael Dummett, who argues that recent asylum seekers, including students fleeing persecution, have...
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Puttnam to lead Nesta
THE film-maker and Labour peer Lord Puttnam is to head the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. Nesta has received Pounds 200 million from the National Lottery.
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1997/98 reveal that: * Ethnic minorities make up 12.8 per cent of all first-year United Kingdom domiciled students * Women made up 54.2 per cent...
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Growth likely to wipe out cash gains
The Comprehensive Spending Review means a 1 per cent per capita cut in real terms for higher and further education. HIGHER EDUCATION Vice-chancellors have declared that the government's spending...
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Correction
LAST week The THES incorrectly reported that the European Commission was proposing a "fivefold" increase in its support for biotechnology research under Framework V. The increase is, in fact, 50 per...
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Oxford chemists spin again
A CHEMICAL software company, Oxford Molecular, created by researchers at the University of Oxford is to launch a Pounds 2.5 million spin-off firm. MicroGenics will help develop a series of...
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Millions lost on patent
SOUTHAMPTON University has lost out on hundreds of millions of pounds in royalties on a breakthrough optical fibre technology because of loose patenting and lack of commercial nous. The technology is...
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Students foot bill for growth
STUDENTS and not the government are funding the bulk of a Pounds 280 million cash boost for universities that still leaves institutions with an overall per capita cut. Claims by the government this...
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Union chiefs go halfway to cross-binary merger
UNION chiefs agreed this week to set up two new staff bodies, based separately in higher and further education and joined together in a federation. The agreement, made by representatives of the...