Howells defends corporate degrees
UNIVERSITIES will be left behind if they do not bow to market demand for "work-based degrees", lifelong learning minister Kim Howells has warned. The market for degrees is changing rapidly, and...
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Key skills are a capitalist issue
UNIVERSITIES will never be able to define and assess a set of "key skills" acceptable to industry, an Institute of Education report will warn later this month, writes Phil Baty. The report's author,...
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The spin-off and win game
Scottish universities are profiting handsomely by commercialising their research. Olga Wojtas reports. SCOTLAND'S higher education institutions earn more than Pounds 6.7 million a year from...
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Don't count your patents before they are hatched
CARELESS talk may no longer cost lives, but it can cost patents. Intellectual property is one of the key issues in commercialising research, but to patent an idea, it must not be in the public domain...
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Speaking Volumes: Gore Vidal's Julian
As an adolescent in the west of Scotland I was something of a historical trainspotter, able to list all the kings and queens of England, though not, oddly enough, those of Scotland, and able to...
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Alfred's brush with pleasure
Alfred C. Kinsey
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Dr Win-the-War and Nurse Winston
Forged In War
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Fickle friends by the Potomac
Roosevelt, Gandhi, Churchill
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Let the credits roll
Persona Granada
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Fat cats and top dogs
A Class Act
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Cries from the heart of civilisation
Violence and Civilisation
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What a swell party this was
Children of the Revolution
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Multiple divisions
Health and Illness in a Changing Society
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Pass the cornflakes
Don't Do It! A Dictionary of the Forbidden
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The pulp school of sociology
Wild Cowboys