The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson, directed by Julien Temple
Filming in what they believed were Wilko Johnson’s final days, the guitarist and the director offer up a celebratory vision of culture and life, writes Andrew Blake
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UUK: industry must have input into curriculum
Businesses must have a more effective input into the design and delivery of courses at undergraduate, postgraduate and foundation level, according to Universities UK's submission to the Treasury-...
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Council spurs industry focus
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is refocusing its funding strategy to help tailor courses to meet the needs of industry more closely. "Our new masters training packages should...
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The industrial evolution
Can Darwinism be applied to technological innovation? John Ziman examines the analogy between biological and cultural evolution. Go to a technology museum, and look at the bicycles. Then go to a...
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Student-consultants: cut-price advice from campuses
Those studying at Arizona State and other universities are in demand as firms across the US seek fresh business insights, says Jon Marcus
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News in brief - 5 March 2015
Quality assuranceQAA heads to the MedUK higher education provision in Cyprus, Greece and Malta is to be reviewed by the Quality Assurance Agency. More than 20,000 students are enrolled in UK higher...
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Crisis at Work: Identity and the End of Career, by Jesse Potter
Bankers swap cufflinks for cassocks in an era of reinvention not defined by pay, finds Leslie Gofton
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9 reasons to be cheerful about your pension
Economist Andrew Oswald counsels against despair over the Universities Superannuation Scheme reforms
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Coherent higher education policy? Far from it
Despite the introduction of postgraduate loans, the government’s education funding aims remain a puzzle, says Nigel Carrington
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Pfizer saga: health warning for UK university research
Life sciences ecosystem may lose out if US firm was ever to take over Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca
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EESC Opinion: Commission Communication on a European Strategy for Nanotechnology (link)
Brussels, 15 December 2004 OPINION of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission: Towards a European strategy for nanotechnology COM(2004) 338 final Full text...
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Willetts’ eight are not great but ‘nonsense’
Research areas championed by government dismissed as poor investments by technology expert
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Reducing animal testing: Commission agrees partnership with industry
Brussels, 7 November 2005 Reducing animal testing is the aim of a new "European partnership to promote alternative approaches to animal testing". Industry associations from the pharmaceuticals,...
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Puttnam calls for bold IT strategy
The education business may soon offer commercial opportunities that dwarf those of the entertainment industry, Sir David Puttnam believes. Multimedia producers in the United Kingdom have in their...
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Q&A with Paul Boyle
We speak to the new vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester and former chief executive of the ESRC