Home truths
Stephen Byers, secretary of state for trade and industry, opens the Space4 factory in Castle Bromwich. The Westbury building group's factory uses a new process that builds homes with higher standards...
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Free software will build architect skill
Software that radically changes the way architects work is being offered free to European academic institutions. Revit Technology, creator of the first parametric building modeller for architects and...
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Intellectual challenge
Universities need better support networks if they are fully to exploit their intellectual property rights, argues Graham Christ. Previous attempts to promote the exploitation of intellectual property...
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What does a retired historian care about English?
The British Academy is not equipped to administer funding for the Arts and Humanities Research Board, argues Martin Dodsworth. The British Academy's headquarters in Carlton House Terrace, just down...
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Why I... believe we should market education as if someone might want to buy it
Several generations have been substantially switched off to further learning. They share a memory of education as something negative, remedial, enjoyed, if at all, under a regime of compulsion. How...
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Top and bottom of the patent pile
Germany appears to be the most industrially innovative country in the European Union, filing 43.6 per cent of EU patent applications with the European Patent Office in 1999. Its nearest rival, France...
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Here's looking at EU
The Joint Research Council's new director-general describes its harmonising role to Paul Bompard. The European Union's Joint Research Centre was founded in 1957 under the Euratom Treaty. It has its...
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Cutting Edge: Gurdyl Besra
With drug-resistant tuberculosis still a danger, the search is on for weak spots in the TB bacterium and ways to attack them. Tuberculosis has claimed the lives of millions of people in developing...
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First geological survey untainted
The 17th-century Italian academics involved in the first scientific geological field survey were not guilty of allowing politics to dictate their conclusions. Andrew Scott, a palaeobotanist at Royal...
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Word order may stump hackers
Scholars have devised a way to protect the integrity of sensitive documents from hackers by adding a hidden "watermark" in the syntax and grammatical structure of the text. The computerised approach...
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How to: Stop jitters when public speaking
To assist students with presentations, tutors should teach them to relax and help them prepare thoroughly, says Mark Griffiths. Most of us have suffered a little anxiety before speaking in public....
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Star turn: Ways to spread your wings
With the Teaching Fellowship Awards approaching, one of last year's winners tells Esther Leach how he is spending his £50,000 prize making web learning fun. Mick Short pulls out a pair of large,...
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Agony Aunt: Keeping up to date with information resources
Q: I regularly send students off to the library but realise that I am probably out of date about what it has to offer. Any suggestions? A: The first thing to do is to make contact with the subject-...
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What is the right choice?
Staff are seeking exams that will reduce workload. Gareth Holsgrove looks at the pros and cons of multiple-choice questions Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) have existed as an examination method for...
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Headscarves ban imposed on Turkish Cyprus
Turkey's ban on headscarves has spread to universities in the Turkish Republic of Cyprus, where restrictions on religious dress by female students are being increasingly enforced. Scores of students...