Disgusted voters turn to e-petitions
The Scottish Parliament's petitions committee yesterday received a 545-signature "e-petition", which was conducted using a system developed at Napier University. The e-petition, which demands the...
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Fish get colour-me-tasty treatment
Researchers at the University of Plymouth have developed a technique that will help fish-food producers find the right formula to produce healthy looking salmon and trout. Paul Russell, senior...
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Speedy Oz chips attract big bucks
An Australian computer chip company, founded three years ago by two Macquarie University researchers in Sydney, was bought by US technology giant Cisco for $295 million (£207 million) last...
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Universitas 21 deal for online MBA
Universitas 21 is setting up a multimillion-dollar joint venture company with Thomson Learning and plans to establish an e-university offering online MBAs within a year. The e-university would offer...
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Britain produces space camera poorer countries can afford
An innovative earth-imaging camera that costs a fifth of the price of comparable units is to fly on Topsat (Tactical Optical Satellite), one of three new small satellite projects recently announced...
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Irish pubs lose traditions
The rise of theme pubs is clouding Ireland's pub culture - a key reason for the rise in tourism, according to Mark McGovern, social science lecturer at Edge Hill College of Higher Education. Dr...
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Non-profit journals fight back
A St Andrews University economist is seeking academics' support for a bold initiative to use the internet to combat the growing cost of academic journals. Manfredi La Manna, reader in economics,...
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UCL banks on Suffolk park life
University College London is to open a multimillion pound advanced research and postgraduate centre in information and communications technologies in Suffolk next spring. UCL@Adastral.Park is funded...
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Wanted: more smart asses
Enterprise teaching ranges from "bad to disastrous" in all countries and its "shady image" acts as a break on development, according to a report on entrepreneurship. The findings are from the second...
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Will Halifax also be 'big' for people in 54 states?
Richard Bourne assesses whether the coming Commonwealth education conference will be more than just talk. One of the biggest but most mysterious international conferences on education begins this...
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Time to stop the rot - in rich and in poor countries
"A country whose universities are allowed to decline is opting out of the development process at the start of the 21st century." Richard Bourne quotes an Association of Commonwealth Universities...
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Institutions wither in the quality straitjacket
An obsession with auditing is preventing British universities from competing with the US, argues Frank Furedi. John Kay's warning this week about the vanishing world-class British university is...
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Why I... believe surveys can be misleading
Gathering accurate data is vital as government and other agencies turn increasingly to surveys to gauge public feeling about policy issues. But even the most reputable surveys can never be perfect -...
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Managing to change
Since human nature does not lend itself to the business environment, business should adapt to human nature, says Nigel Nicholson. New Darwinism, or evolutionary psychology (EP), has focused attention...
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