Patents provide universities with slender returns
Julia Hinde A leading US technology licensing manager has warned universities that commercialising their research will never make a major contribution to their budgets. At the American Association...
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New benefactors for scientists
A new wave of philanthropy - led by young professionals including many women - has hit the US in the past two to three years. Jaleh Daie, professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison...
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DTI knocks UK entrepreneurs for their 'poverty of ambition'
Entrepreneurs in the United Kingdom are "too easily satisfied" with their first million and suffer from a "poverty of ambition", according to Philip Treleaven of University College London. Professor...
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EU will stand by pure research
Blue-skies university research must continue to be state funded while building closer links with the private sector, said Edith Cresson, European research and innovation commissioner. Mrs Cresson,...
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Beatles' staying power proven on the phone
People hanging on the telephone will stay on 20 per cent longer if they are met with music rather than voice messages. Psychologists from Leicester and Durham universities tested 103 callers, leaving...
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Chip lovers fooled by thinner portions
Restaurants and fast-food outlets can fool the customer with thin-cut French fries, research at the Robert Gordon University has revealed. Thinner chips make for a bigger portion in the mind of the...
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Colleges round on NUS priorities
The National Union of Students is failing to represent the majority of its members by ignoring further education students, say college chiefs and student leaders. Led by the Association of Colleges,...
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London don tops list at Pounds 220,000
The country's best-paid academic in a publicly funded institution earned Pounds 220,000 in 1997-98, The THES can reveal. He or she was based at the London Business School and earned more than the...
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Outsiders looking in
The inspectors who judge schools should evaluate our university teaching, argues Peter Knight. I recently gave evidence to the government's select committee on education and employment. The subject...
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'They should show solidarity with staff'
* "I think staff here at Leeds Metropolitan will be surprised by this and will want to start asking questions. At the very least there is a question of fairness to be answered. Academic salaries have...
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From mark to blemish
Excellence in public service won Sunderland University one of only two Cabinet Office "Charter Mark" awards given to the higher education sector in 1997. Sunderland's award stands until 2000, but the...
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Bill signals end for dismissals on the cheap
College managers have been known to admit privately that they may budget for unfair dismissal payouts when deciding to sack staff. With a maximum compensation of Pounds 12,000 at an industrial...
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In the news
When she retires this summer, Jenny Shackleton, 55, principal of troubled Wirral Metropolitan College, will have spent 26 years involved in further education. The past 12, in the politically charged...
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Don's Diary
Monday The week starts with a strange need - where to find a stuffed fox. We want to investigate maternal responsiveness in sows and need to acquire a predator. One phone call to a contact in the...
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On the move
Former governor of Hong Kong Chris Patten, 54, has been made chancellor of Newcastle University, where his eldest daughter Kate was an undergraduate. He hopes to promote the university abroad,...