High standards in a massive world
SOME words escape me. Words such as "standards" and "innovation". Not because their definition is elusive, or their meaning largely unclear. But because they become associated with a metaphysical...
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Don's Diary
Sunday The weekend of my mother's 80th birthday. My siblings have been assembled from around the globe, no mean feat of organisation, and we are off to a lunch for 42 at a Sussex hotel. This event is...
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Fellowships
Welsh College of Music and Drama Honorary fellowships have been awarded to: Keith Allen, actor; Roy Bohana, music director of the Arts Council for Wales to 1997; Julian Bream, lutenist; Rebecca Evans...
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Awards
The Royal Society of Chemistry 1997 silver medal awards have been presented to the following: Analytical reactions and analytical reagents: Ramaier Narayanaswamy, professor at UMIST, in recognition...
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Careers: In the City
Pack up your PhD and head for the City where the computer screens are painted in pound signs for the ambitious researcher, says Natasha Loder GETTING a PhD is not the obvious route towards making a...
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Do the big shots call the shots?
Industry giants put millions of pounds into university research, but what do they expect in return? The THES spotlights three of the big spenders. How does the computing giant decide who to back and...
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How Microsoft backs higher education in the United States
Industry giants put millions of pounds into university research, but what do they expect in return? The THES spotlights three of the big spenders Microsoft Student Scholarship Programme for...
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Do the big shots call the shots?
Industry giants put millions of pounds into university research, but what do they expect in return? The THES spotlights three of the big spenders. Oxford's Glycobiology Institute receives the biotech...
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Do the big shots call the shots?
Industry giants put millions of pounds into university research, but what do they expect in return? The THES spotlights three of the big spenders. The aero-engines and industrial power systems maker...
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Tell us your views
Industry giants put millions of pounds into university research, but what do they expect in return? The THES spotlights three of the big spenders Big firms spend big money on university research, but...
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Cash for Scots network
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has awarded Pounds 161,500 to three universities to help develop a learning network for remote sensing, a method of studying the environment on local,...
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Collaboration in vogue
Working with customers and suppliers is the most highly rated form of collaboration by firms, according to a study by science and technology think-tank Cest. It was voted most important by 85 per...
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Library lottery grant
The Consortium of University Research Libraries has been awarded Pounds 10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards a Pounds 36,650 study into how retrospective conversion of catalogue records for...
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Drug boosts cancer hopes
A drug routinely used to treat high blood pressure may also protect against cancer, researchers in Glasgow University's medical school believe. The scientists stress that the connection has yet to be...
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Japan gets patent fund
Waseda University in Tokyo has joined with Daiwa Securities to create Japan's first fund for patenting and marketing university research, writes John Greenlees in Japan. The Waseda-Daiwa Pilot Fund...