Universities are 'incubators' of the future
Incubation of new small businesses by universities will be at the heart of entrepreneurial Britain in the 21st century, Patricia Hewitt, minister for small business, said this week. Speaking at the...
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IT news in brief
The Occupational Standards Council for Engineering has made its revised occupational standards for higher levels available on its new website. The website has links to other key sites. www.osceng.co....
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Why I...believe decommissioning means more than merely handing in weapons in Northern Ireland
Peter Shirlow lectures in the school of environmental studies at the University of Ulster. Mapping the Spaces of Fear in North Belfast, the first phase of an ESRC research project, was published this...
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Investors seek ethical pension
Shareholders in the old universities' main pension scheme are expected to agree new ethical investment policies when they meet for their annual general meeting next week. The Universities...
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Plan for livery company
A group of educationists have applied to the Corporation of London for the right to set up an education livery company. "Livery companies are not just dining clubs for the rich," said Keith Lawrey,...
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A year of deficits forecast
Nearly a third of universities predict they will be running on a "continuing deficit" next year, despite some making "optimistic" assumptions about their income, funding council chiefs have revealed...
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Call out
(Photograph) - One of about 15,000 students who took part in a march through London to protest against student hardship and tuition fees. The National Union of Students' National March for Education...
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How did you perform?
http:///www.niss.ac.uk/education/hefce/pub99/99_66.html Tools for improvement or a stick to beat universities with? Alison Goddard, Alan Thomson and Olga Wojtas report on the sector's first ever...
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Widening participation statistics tell a story ... but it's not the whole story
Thames Valley University receives less money than it should for widening participation among poorer people, according to the performance indicators. The university, which is implementing a recovery...
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Widening participation statistics tell a story ... but it's not the whole story
Of the old English universities, the University of Salford performed much better than expected at widening participation by under-represented groups. The university enrolled almost a third more...
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Nurturing the creative
Spin-off companies, creative crucibles, basic research and knowledge - all sound reasons for giving universities more cash in the spending round, THES reporters found The creative industries employ 1...
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Doing drugs - the safe way
Cypex Ltd was launched in September as the result of a five-year project by Dundee University's biomedical research centre. Its work should mean safer drugs reaching patients more quickly. Co-...
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Sussex researchers asked to re-research the value of research
Vice-chancellors have asked researchers to update a study of the relationship between basic research and economic performance to underpin their case for more cash. The 1996 study, commissioned by the...
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Forging electronic links
Each year David Rhodes (pictured) takes the cream of Leeds electronics graduates to run various bits of his multimillion-pound empire. In fact, Filtronic plc grew out of Leeds University, where...
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Diminishing returns on increasing investment
Social return on investment is more difficult to measure in education than in, say, health. The social return from hospitals needs no explanation. They save lives. Above and beyond sufficient numbers...