Taylor misses innovation trick
Ian Taylor's article (THES, May 10) misses some very critical points. He rightly draws on the work of the Department for Trade and Industry's Innovation Unit. Indeed, if there are to be substantial...
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A profit scheme without honour
The concept of "profit" in relation to universities and colleges of higher education was until recently as alien to their staff as it was to officials at the Inland Revenue. However, the...
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Wooden bridge of peace across troubled waters
Five centuries ago, legend has it, a mystic stood on a sacred mountain in Central America and predicted an academic centre for peace would be built there one day. In December 1980, this dream was...
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Engineers in clear
Three engineering professors are getting back over Can$300,000 (Pounds 150,000) after being cleared of any misuse of their research funds in an investigation conducted by the Natural Sciences and...
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Exams before militancy
Hong Kong's destiny may be setting in cement but most university students in the territory are less inclined than ever to leave their footprints on the path of Hong Kong's history. While China was...
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Students make desert tracks
A train service is crossing the Negev desert for the first time in 13 years thanks to students at Ben Gurion University. The service, from Beersheba to Tel Aviv, was abandoned by Israeli Railways in...
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Vintage year for creme
The creme de la creme of France's grandes ecoles appears to be of an even higher standard today than in the 1950s, which was a vintage decade for the production of the nation's elite. This is the...
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Welsh watch eastern flock
A Welsh University is helping improve the quality of sheep flocks in Estonia and Hungary in preparation for the European market. Agriculture in parts of the former communist world is changing...
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Dig for a missing molar
Digging resumed in earnest this week at the Boxgrove site where archaeologists last year uncovered Britain's oldest hominid fossils. Dig directors from University College, London, hope to discover...
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When the living is wheezy
Scientists now believe a western lifestyle is to blame for the increase in asthma. Asthma goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks when Hippocrates coined the term. But in those days the condition...
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Tooled up: Jonathan Mills
(Photograph) - Tooled up: Jonathan Mills, a BA Hons industrial design student at Hallam University, displays a DIY power drill - part of his degree show
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English rules the waves
Thirty years ago, it would have been difficult to travel around Western Europe speaking only English. This is not true today. In fact, the standard of English among the educated in some of these...
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Chinese magic works with students
The number of foreigners studying in China has trebled since 1991 to more than 37,000, according to the State Education Commission. Of these, 4,100 students from 147 countries were granted Chinese...
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OU project shows how 'Cezanne' knits together
How a concept such as "Cezanne" is transformed into a knitting pattern is the subject of a project just launched by the Open University. Researchers aim to find out where designers get their...
