Budget bites
Organising a one-day event requires an aptitude for securing funding and saturation marketing - and a talent for cut-price catering. In their conference diary, Thomas Nutt, Alysa Levene and Samantha...
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Smoothie operators
From energising drinks to golf links, Olga Wojtas collects pointers on how expert organisers make a conference an unmissable event. Gone are the days when the criteria for a successful conference...
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Vroom service
Opening their doors to ad agencies and film and TV companies as well as to conferences can provide institutions with a healthy second income. Anna Fazackerley reports. Some 400 people surged into St...
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For all who relish a slice of life
Academics, it seems, love a culinary adventure and will eat almost anything, as Michael North discovers. Bert Hall will never forget nearly starving in Delaware in the US. It was 1981 and he had been...
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Views with a room
Universities have to be businesslike and professional in providing conference venues and accommodation. Huw Richards reports. Tony Rogers vividly remembers the conference he attended a few years ago...
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A badge of honour
The annual mass gathering of anthropologists - with its fights over status, territorial disputes and rituals of belonging - is little different from other clannish assemblies, and that's why Susan...
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Oh we do like to be beside the seaside…
A conference that combines learning and leisure draws academics, and setting it in a tourist-friendly spot offers an added inducement, writes Chris Bunting It is sometimes easy to forget what...
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Leader: Conferences, Issue No. 1
Students living in Edinburgh University's Chancellor's Court development enjoy double beds that can separate into two singles, en-suite shower and toilet facilities, and even a university television...
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Budget bites
Organising a one-day event requires an aptitude for securing funding and saturation marketing - and a talent for cut-price catering. In their conference diary, Thomas Nutt, Alysa Levene and Samantha...
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Smoothie operators
From energising drinks to golf links, Olga Wojtas collects pointers on how expert organisers make a conference an unmissable event. Gone are the days when the criteria for a successful conference...
-
Vroom service
Opening their doors to ad agencies and film and TV companies as well as to conferences can provide institutions with a healthy second income. Anna Fazackerley reports. Some 400 people surged into St...
-
For all who relish a slice of life
Academics, it seems, love a culinary adventure and will eat almost anything, as Michael North discovers. Bert Hall will never forget nearly starving in Delaware in the US. It was 1981 and he had been...
-
Views with a room
Universities have to be businesslike and professional in providing conference venues and accommodation. Huw Richards reports. Tony Rogers vividly remembers the conference he attended a few years ago...
-
A badge of honour
The annual mass gathering of anthropologists - with its fights over status, territorial disputes and rituals of belonging - is little different from other clannish assemblies, and that's why Susan...
-
Oh we do like to be beside the seaside…
A conference that combines learning and leisure draws academics, and setting it in a tourist-friendly spot offers an added inducement, writes Chris Bunting It is sometimes easy to forget what...