On the move
Chris Humphries , director-general of the British Chambers of Commerce and former chairman of the National Skills Taskforce, has been appointed director-general of awarding body City and Guilds . He...
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UWE bid to develop media hub
An innovative "ideas space" and a rent-a-desk scheme will form part of a business incubation unit for digital media and e-commerce start-ups in Bristol. The unit is being built by the University of...
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Sainsbury ups game in play for extra cash
Science minister Lord Sainsbury has promised to put in an "ambitious" bid for cash to the next comprehensive spending review despite economic circumstances being more difficult than for the last...
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Shooting back at the journalist snipers
Journal of Media Practice
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Germany joins battle for Nobels
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. The cosmopolitan US is proving a hard act for Germany to follow, Jennie Brookman writes. The German scientific community was...
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Prior information notice on services, commerce, tourism, e-business and IDA
Brussels, 13 March 2002 The European Commission's Enterprise DG has issued a prior information notice for calls for tenders for services, commerce, tourism, e-business and IDA (interchange of data...
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Iberian spin-offs start to spring up
Spin-off companies are starting to appear in Spain and Portugal after link-ups between industry and universities. Chemical and pharmaceutical group Solvay is involved in two new spin-offs in the...
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Philippe BUSQUIN: Address to the GMES Steering Committee Meeting GMES Steering Brussels, 19 March 2002
Brussels, 19 March 2002 Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to extend to you a very warm welcome to this first meeting of the GMES Steering Committee. I am delighted to see gathered in this room the...
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Speaking their language
Alison Utley listens in at Leeds in the latest in our series on university cities. When schoolteachers approached the University of Leeds last year to ask whether any linguists would be willing to...
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Materials and systems for optical data storage and processing: concerted European research action (COST)
Brussels, 18 March 2002 European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST Secretariat. Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research...
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New eEurope action plan to have fewer priorities than predecessor
Brussels, 08 May 2002 The new eEurope 2005 action plan will have fewer and more focused priorities than its predecessor, the eEurope 2002 action plan, EU Commissioner for Enterprise and Information...
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Steep rise in foreign students forecast
About a quarter of all students in UK higher education may be from overseas by 2025 - double the current proportion, the British Council has predicted. The change could force institutions to rethink...
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Full heat of rising sun
A History of Japan. First edition
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Today's news
Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...
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Ordinary guy with surprise element
When Howard Davies, chairman of the FSA, decided to take up the post of director of the LSE, the City was 'stunned' but, then again, this regular bloke often has that effect, says Terry Philpot...