Sum mistake surely?
Who says accountants are boring? At the annual conference of the Council for Higher Education Internal Auditors at Stirling University last week, part of one evening's formal entertainment included...
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Who the hell cares about a footnote?
Now that's edutainment! Julian Baggini looks back at how a movie about a lecture brought showbusiness to the academy. Al Gore didn't know what he had started. The real success of the film-of-the-...
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A mixed marriage that gives form to theory
The true shapes and big questions of nature reveal themselves to curious and keen minds of any field, says Martin Kemp. They are the most fashionable couple in academe. Art and science were long...
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Public trust will define success of nanotechnology - Finnish Health Minister Hyssälä
Brussels, 14 September 2006 This is the first time that nanotechnology is being dealt with by such a broad forum, partici-pated in by representatives from the EU of the public sector, the scientific...
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EU project develops allergy database
Brussels, 14 Sep 2006 An EU-funded project has developed a database to track the 50 factors that may cause allergies in children. The European model has attracted interest overseas form countries...
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Research pinpoints Neanderthal last stand
Brussels, 14 Sep 2006 Neanderthals may have survived in Europe much longer after the arrival of modern humans than previously thought, according to new findings from a cave in Gibraltar. Modern...
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Agenda of the Research and Joint Research/Atomic Questions Working Party, 18 September 2006
Brussels, 14 Sep 2006 Full text of Document 2991/06 1. ITER: a) International agreement: - state of play b) European Legal Entity (ELE): - exchange of views = doc. 12323/06 RECH 204 ATO 85 COMPET 218...
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Recycling CO2 into fuel
Brussels, 14 Sep 2006 A pioneering study, funded under the European Commission's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6), has uncovered a way to turn waste carbon dioxide (CO2) into useful fuel. The Specific...
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Innovation, made in Switzerland
Brussels, 14 Sep 2006 Switzerland is one of Europe's top performers in innovation, sharing the all-star bench with the likes of Finland, Sweden, and Germany. However, signs of weaknesses are...
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ITEA 2 Symposium 2006, Paris
Brussels, 14 Sep 2006 The ITEA 2 (Information Technology for European Advancement) symposium will take place on 5 and 6 October 2006 in Paris, France. ITEA 2 aims to boost European competitiveness by...
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Today's news
'Stay at home' degrees over the internet Traditional three-year residential honours degrees could be replaced by a more flexible credit-based system, Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, said...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"A quarter of university staff plan to leave their current employer in the next year" - survey by The Times Higher, September 5. Finished with The Higher? Won't be a sec. Just checking the details of...
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Leader: Two systems, no easy answers
The concerns over widening participation expressed by Stephen Gorard and Emma Smith have been echoed this month in the US. In both countries, concerted attempts to draw into universities sections of...
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Leader: In search of a yardstick
International comparisons based on academic tests have caused regular furores at school level, with whole national systems changing in response to poor results. Germany was the prime example, where...
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'Staff happy to stay put' shock
I had a good hoot reading your front-page article ("Dissatisfied staff plan exodus", September 8). For several years, when teaching social research methods to management postgraduates, I have used...