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Among the most reliable of running stories with which the "fings ain't wot they used to be" section of the national press is wont to regale us on slow news days is the proposition - probably first...
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Subscript for a free and easy system
JISC will extend and embrace new models of funding and delivery in its strategies towards the year 2000. The Joint Information Systems Committee's new five-year strategy recognises the importance of...
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Research probes IT value for Dearing
The alleged benefits of information technology in higher education are to be dissected and examined with sophisticated techniques imported from the United States. Researchers at three universities...
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Hole truths
John Davies reports on the problems archaeologists face in Jerusalem. The odd thing is it's sometimes called an archaeological tunnel in the press. But the tunnelling work has always been in the...
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Budgets win prizes
Just what do we want to get for the billions the Government spends on research. The increased concentration of research funding in a few universities, highlighted by the imminent increase in research...
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Superleague formed
Four British universities are founder members of a new international superleague of institutions which aims to set up research and student exchange networks. Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and...
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The right ending?
The Tories are set for electoral defeat, predicts historian John Charmley. And, he tells Simon Targett, Tony Blair is a very 'convincing Conservative prime minister' who could be Mrs T's true heir....
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A three-cornered battle of Wits
Race and gender are to the fore in the election for the leadership of one of South Africa's largest and most influential universities, writes Karen Mac Gregor. The three professors in the running for...
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British plot coup of the heart valves
Three universities are collaborating on a Pounds 1 million project to create an artificial heart valve that could transform cardiac surgery. Patients whose diseased heart valves have to be replaced...
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Treasury explores VAT relief
The Government's pre-election Budget could include measures designed to accelerate the university sector's slow uptake of its private finance initiative, a ministerial adviser has revealed. Ahead of...
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Anguished over mixed blessings
I have been more conscious this year than in earlier years of some of the difficulties of the admissions system for school-leavers, but I have not become any clearer about the best way forward....
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No brass, no PFI
Simon Targett quotes John McWilliam of Greenwich University as saying that the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals is talking nonsense when it says the Private Finance Initiative is not...
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Firms ignore ideas on innovation
Small and medium-sized firms are not taking advantage of innovative ideas from universities, patents and trade fairs, according to a survey of 1,000 companies. The finding suggests that government...
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Reel time
The American Film Institute has relaunched its web site (www.afionline.org) with a new interface and new content including material about the AFI's newly acquired 1912 film Richard III, the oldest...