Europe ignores patent data at its peril
European companies throw away Pounds 20 billion a year by duplicating research and development that has already been patented, sometimes by the same firm. Trevor Lemon, assistant director of research...
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Peers girded for fees battle
PEERS may be prepared to fight the government all the way on Scottish university tuition fees, possibly delaying the implementation of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill. In what would be a rare...
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German houses split over reform
Germany's ruling coalition has forced higher education reforms through the federal parliament in the face of Social Democrats' opposition in the upper house. The SPD will now fight the Higher...
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R&D investment falls behind
British company investment in research and development is falling further behind international competitors despite a 5 per cent rise last year in top firms' investment. The 1998 United Kingdom R&...
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Bruford drama
YOU quote from a college press release that describes the recent student protest and occupation of the Creek Road site of Rose Bruford College as an "orchestrated campaign of misinformation by...
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Democracy and the Teddy Hall affair
The departure of Sir Stephen Tumim from St Edmund Hall (THES, June 19) is being used to launch a number of half-truths and misrepresentations. The fact is that Oxford's and Cambridge's continued...
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Democracy and the Teddy Hall affair
I HAVE just completed ten years as head of one of the larger Oxford colleges; I am not a professional academic; I have a good deal of experience in the running, funding and governing of institutions...
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Democracy and the Teddy Hall affair
Your entertaining piece has a good go at the allegedly archaic college system in Oxford and Cambridge. That St Edmund Hall has fallen out with its recently appointed principal, and that there have...
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Democracy and the Teddy Hall affair
I MUST protest at the parody of the Oxbridge College system given in the article "Quad wrangles". There have been two highly public fallings out between fellows and heads of college in the 1990s....
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Ziggy's origins
References to our published work on the life and work of the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, and to a lengthy interview that we gave to Alison Utley, upon which she relied heavily in her interpretation...
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An orchestrated success
Ulster pioneers peer assessment in music. Olga Wojtas reports Music students differ from other kinds of students. Unlike most of their contemporaries, they are likely to have been skilled performers...
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What did you do at work today?
Lucy Jenks, Project Manager in Adult basic education, Tower Hamlets College Phil Baty spends a day with an FE project manager and Alan Thomson tails a university professor The power-cut comes just...
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What did you do at work today?
Clive Holtham, Head of Department of Management Systems and Information, City University Phil Baty spends a day with an FE project manager and Alan Thomson tails a university professor CLIVE Holtham...
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How not to get sued
University teachers must keep their balance as students become more litigious customers. Alison Utley offers some advice What happens when a South-east Asian student flunks her degree then sues the...
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Dumbing down disproved
Top honours degree have not been "dumbed down", evidence this week shows. The Higher Education Statistics agency has found that the proportion of first class and upper second class degrees awarded...