Campus round-up
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Greater value than money
Innovation oughtn't mean just profit-making technology - there is a subtler, social sort, explains Nick Petford
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Appointments
Royal Welsh College of Music and DramaSimon JonesThe Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has appointed Simon Jones acting head of strings. The promotion of Dr Jones, currently head of the college'...
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'Consumer' right? No, it's the wrong analogy
After two decades of exposure to the managerial mantra "the student is a consumer", I was intrigued to see the ߣߣÊÓƵ headline "A bad deal for 'consumers'" (17 November), particularly...
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Conference on Women in Industrial Research - Speeding up Changes in Europe - Berlin, 10 October
Brussels, 30 Sep 2003 Who? Philippe Busquin, Commissioner for Research, European Commission Prof. Helga Rübsamen-Waigmann, Vice President, Bayer HealthCare, Head of Anti-infectives Research and...
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Conference on Women in Industrial Research - Speeding up Changes in Europe - Berlin, 10 October
Brussels, 30 Sep 2003 Who? Philippe Busquin, Commissioner for Research, European Commission Prof. Helga Rübsamen-Waigmann, Vice President, Bayer HealthCare, Head of Anti-infectives Research and...
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Informal meeting of Industry and Research Ministers, 1+2 February 2002
Brussels, 31 January 2002 EU Industry and Research ministers will meet for two days in Girona, Spain. During the first day, they will hold three debates together. On the second day they will meet...
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Aim for the stars in science - but don't ask for more money
David Willetts has set out proposals for major multi-national corporations to join forces with a foreign or British university and establish new graduate-only research institutions in the UK.
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Reach for the stars
The REF is coming and many institutions are looking to poach premier league researchers to boost their scores (and income) before it is too late. Elizabeth Gibney takes a look at the recruitment ‘...
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Appointments
University of BathConrad EarnestA professor of health and exercise has swapped the bayou for Bath. Conrad Earnest, who joined the University of Bath in April from the Pennington Biomedical Research...
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English 'experiment' may need the luck of the Irish to succeed
The coalition's university reforms seem ill-conceived to Ireland's funding chief. Matthew Reisz reports
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Radio ga-gagged
Press a button and someone’s reputation dies, warns Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Scots explore foreign ideas for industry initiative
Academics and industrialists are joining together in a bid to make Scotland a European leader in commercialising research in science and technology. Both sectors have given broad support to a draft...
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Robert Gordon uses slick logic to tap the assets of its environment
New principal emphasises importance of links with local industries. Hannah Fearn reports
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Shakespeare in America
At the time of writing, Shakespeare's Globe is staging his oeuvre in a variety of languages including King John in Armenian, Hamlet in Lithuanian and Troilus and Cressida in Maori. There is also a...