Universities and colleges get Catalyst Fund injection
Sixteen UK higher education institutions are to benefit from a £50 million investment in research projects designed to drive economic growth, the universities and science minister has said.
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Leader: Are industry links dulling the cutting edge of research?
It has become an article of faith in British higher education that researchers should collaborate closely with business and industry. Doubtless, this month's government strategy document will stress...
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Byrne tackles Willetts over science capital on debut
The capital element of the science budget should be ring fenced to avoid the peril of “announcement-based politics”, according to Labour’s new shadow minister for the sector.
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Willetts announces funding for ‘great technologies’
David Willetts has announced £85 million in funding to provide equipment in three of the “eight great technologies” being targeted to drive growth.
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Best University Workplace Survey 2015: results and analysis
The results show that most people in the sector enjoy their work and their colleagues, but some are happier than others
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Overt strategy for global learning
In its cover story on "Intellectual Capital" on October 3 last year, Fortune magazine argued that a major challenge facing corporations is how to figure out the worth of their collective knowledge...
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Moocs UK will offer escape from ‘The Man’, says Bean
The UK’s first massive open online course platform will allow students to set their own targets and escape rules set by “The Man”
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CPMR calls for increased regional dimension to future EU research strategy
Brussels, 06 Aug 2004 The conference of peripheral maritime regions (CPMR), an association representing geographically remote areas of Europe, has expressed its surprise at the 'unambitious' regional...
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Campus close-up: University of Leeds
Yorkshire powerhouse puts accent on interdisciplinarity, research themes and life lessons for undergraduates
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IT skills and links between industry and universities vital, says Clarke
The government's commitment to a fundamental shift in the relationship between higher education and business was reinforced at a skills launch on Tuesday. Charles Clarke, secretary of state for...
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Any cuts to doubled FP7 budget go against Lisbon Strategy, argues Buzek report
Brussels, 16 Jan 2006 The first draft of the report on the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) by the European Parliament's committee on industry, research and energy (ITRE) claims that any reduction...
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Beyond reach
Students wishing to progress to master’s degree courses are stymied by the lack of state finance, and numbers of home students are falling. The government has realised that it cannot ignore the...
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Priced out of postgraduate education
Students who want to do master’s degrees are stymied by a lack of state finance. Paul Jump investigates how funding can be fixed
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The PhD experience: this far, and no further
Five students on how doctoral study changed them and their futures
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Report on the 18 Nov meeting of the COST Strategy Issues Group
Brussels, 03 Jan 2002 Full text of Document 290/02 19 December 2002 SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS Subject: First meeting of the Strategy Issues Group (SIG) held in Brussels on 18 November 2002 1. OPENING OF...