From today's UK papers 23 October 2000
FINANCIAL TIMES Oxford University's medical research council has backed down from a potentially damaging intellectual property dispute with the University of Nairobi over joint research into a...
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Latest stories 23 October
Euro rectors end Serb isolation Marija Bogdanovic, acting rector of the University of Belgrade, is due to attend this weeks' CRE/Association of European Rectors conference in Cracow, Poland...
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Higher education appointments
Hong Kong University of Science & Technology The following have been appointed to the university's court: Payson Cha , chairman of the Mingly Corporation Ltd; William Fung , group managing...
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Higher education awards & prizes
University of Cluj, Romania Derek Ingham , professor of applied mathematics, has been awarded an honorary doctorate .
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Science park could bring Glasgow 3,000 new jobs
Glasgow's universities are set to play a key role in a £60 million science development that will potentially bring 3,000 new jobs to the city in the next five years, writes Olga Wojtas....
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Scottish spin-offs show how to connect
One of the more horrifying of medical horror stories is of a patient waking up during surgery and feeling pain but being unable to alert anyone. Audiomedix Ltd, a Glasgow University spin-off company...
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Plan will give students money and prospects
Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh has launched a multi-pronged campaign to boost students' career opportunities without hampering their studies. A key element of QMUC's Investors in...
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Risk thrives in open society
Regions with a large number of gay couples and ethnic minorities are likely to be more successful at entrepreneurship. Speaking at the launch of the International Entrepreneurship Forum in Birmingham...
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Robots herald Chico's arrival
New-media artist Chico Macmurtrie signalled his appointment as a senior research fellow at Nottingham Trent University by previewing his latest creation - an installation called "The...
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Spanish centre is funded by PwC
IESE Business School and consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers are setting up a $1 million centre for research into European e-business. The centre, officially launched yesterday, has been operating...
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Raising profile is a start but what about pay?
The Commons select committee inquiry into higher education is in little danger of becoming another Dearing-style doorstopper, as chairman Barry Sheerman fears. Its terms of reference may be wide, but...
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Jung: rational views
In his review of books on the philosophy and psychology of consciousness, Jeffrey Gray attributes the phrase "New Mysterians" to Daniel Dennett (Books, THES, October 13)....
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Gatekeepers to the middle class
Ian Lovecy fails to acknowledge the pivotal role of universities in the reproduction of social inequalities (Letters, THES, October 13). By continuing to admit only those who have acquired particular...
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Gatekeepers to the middle class
Your report on Oxford University inaccurately reports that it does not head a single newspaper league table ("It's goodbye to Brideshead", THES, October 13). The department of...
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Gatekeepers to the middle class
Claire Sanders reports that "many vice-chancellors maintain that Britain can sustain only two world-class universities". Who, which and why? To hazard a guess that "world...