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Glasgow Caledonian is making a concerted push to integrate research and business activities with a raft of new professional appointments. Claire Sanders reports. Glasgow Caledonian is after the...
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Who got that job?
Clive Barnett, 36 Lecturer in Human Geography The Open University Job advertised in The Times Higher on December 6, 2002 There was one glitch when The Open University finally interviewed Clive...
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Gun laws, hitchhikers, allergies? No problem
Tutors have a duty of care to students and must prepare for field trips, whether it's springtime in Paris or trekking up Kilimanjaro, says David Nash. Most people think that students are capable of...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Patience Schell Age : 34 Job : Lecturer in Latin American cultural studies, department of Spanish and Portuguese...
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Offa may hinder not help access, Natfhe claims
The opening shots in what is expected to be the key battleground of the higher education bill in the House of Lords were fired this week, as the planned regulator for university access came under...
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Today's news
Nottingham opens 4,000-student campus in China The University of Nottingham yesterday became the first British institution to announce the establishment of a campus on the Chinese mainland,...
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PUBLIC CONSULTATION: New Action Plan: Innovate for a Competitive Europe
Brussels, 15 Apr 2004 To improve competitiveness, productivity, added value and growth, Europe needs more innovation. The Enterprise Directorate-General is developing a new innovation action plan to...
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Enlargement is good news for life sciences sector, says report
Brussels, 15 Apr 2004 According to a recent report by Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, enlargement could, in the long term, strengthen Europe's position in the life sciences sector. At present,...
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Cross-border information day, France
Brussels, 15 Apr 2004 A two day conference on cross-border cooperation between France and Spain in the field of biotechnologies for health and medical devices will be held in Toulouse, France, on and...
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ESA consults European science community on candidate Earth Explorer missions
Paris, 15 Apr 2004 On 19 and 20 April at ESA's establishment in Frascati, near Rome, the ESA Directorate of Earth Observation is holding an Earth Explorer User Consultation Meeting at which the...
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Satellite technology to climb Everest
Paris, 15 Apr 2004 A satellite-based Health Monitoring Kit developed by the Canadian company March Networks and co-funded by ESA, is being used to aid a group of climbers in their attempt to climb...
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Hit all the right buttons or just flash the cash
One-off bursaries and highly focused marketing are two ways in which courses are attracting students in the battle to stay viable. Harriet Swain reports Top-up fee-fuelled debates about the...
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Spars & Gripes: Ear for the death rattle of an empire
Emmanuel Todd has endured severe flak for his views on the US. Laurie Taylor invited the author of bestseller After the Empire to defend his stance in the first of a series of controversial opinions...
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Banking on more reliable evidence
Despite the conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent for the Lockerbie bombing, Robert Black QC, who helped bring the case to trial, has doubts about the outcome, as he tells Adam James Academics do...
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Will game end on foul play?
Stephen Phillips reports on how scandal has damaged the status of US college sports Murray Sperber thought it prudent to go check out the house he'd inherited in Montreal and to make himself scarce...