Getting back to our rural roots
The Rural Landscape - The Living Land - Migration into Rural Areas
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Cutting edge of the city
Newcastle, once the setting for postwar urban mismanagement on a grand scale, is nurturing a technology-led revolution in the study of cities and responsive ways to manage their regeneration. Simon...
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A question of value for money
As Budget Day approaches there have been the usual leaks about fights within the Cabinet over public expenditure cuts. The two alleged victims are social security and education. This is bad news for...
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Academic bias slammed
A Training and Enterprise Council chief has launched a scathing attack on the "conspiratorial" neglect of work-based learning by academics, civil servants and politicians. Policy-makers and further...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Research contracts (continued) Dr P. James-Roxby and Mr R. Chance, Pounds 60,620 from TCD and Pounds 19,500 from Thomas Walker Ltd. (introduction of ultrasonic and solar-...
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Research reforms anger scientists
Danish ministry of research proposals for a tripartite research policy structure have angered the university and research community. Bent Schmidt-Nielsen, rector of the Royal Danish Veterinary and...
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Co-ops now pay dividends
Old rivals in the Northeast are sinking their differences and embarking on joint ventures in a bid to make an international impact. In our latest regional focus, THES reporters examine an outbreak of...
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Haphazard hazards
Natural Risk and Civil Protection
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Open road to OMI sweet home
Julian Newman looks at the new face of European research and finds hope for the future direction of funding The European Union has recently launched its fourth Framework programme for Research and...
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A few that got away
Does the research assessment exercise get you down? Do you dream of jacking it all in for a job in the real world? Kate Worsley talks to some of those who have made the leap from the ivory tower and...
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Blue chip partnership
The University of Nottingham makes millions of pounds from industry Colin Campbell explains. Recently it was announced that the University of Nottingham, with an annual income of Pounds 6.3 million,...
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System due for change
Since the second world war, higher education has evolved in three distinct phases - expansion, democratisation and, currently, quality control. But Germany is among the last to enter the quality...
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Keeping up with the Dow-Joneses
A Random Walk down Wall Street
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Glittering prize up for grabs
In 1895 the Lumire brothers in France developed the Cinematographe camera-projector and in so doing helped to spawn an industry that has had a profound cultural, economic and industrial impact on the...
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V-cs dump telco to go for video
BT is safe for another year, with its contract as the major supplier of the SuperJanet academic network extended till March 1998. But in ߣߣÊÓƵ it was a different story as the country's vice...