From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Unwanted Christmas gifts are economically inefficient. John Kay examines US academic Joel Waldford's super-rational view of Christmas. THE GUARDIAN Thirty-six Scottish pupils may...
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Worldbeaters 'pool resources'
Universities should become more like private sector companies, axeing weaker courses and focusing on their strengths, vice-chancellors are to be told. To compete successfully in increasingly...
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Plea for French-built synchrotron
France should develop a new-generation synchrotron on its own territory, a parliamentary committee has unanimously concluded, flatly contradicting former research minister Claude All gre's decision...
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Report of CREST meeting (scientific and technical research) on 8 February 2002
Brussels, 9 April 2002 Scientific and Technical Research Committee ­ CREST ­ Secretariat. Summary conclusions of the 281st meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (...
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Falling fortunes of the lands of the rising sun
The Great Divergence
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Clergyman's formula predicts Hollywood hits
The ideas of an 18th-century English clergyman have been used by two management scientists to forecast the success of new movies with unprecedented accuracy. Two American experts have turned to the...
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G8 members commit to lifelong learning
Leaders of the world's industrial nations have signed a charter outlining their common goals on lifelong learning. G8 members signed the charter at their recent summit in Germany. It says that...
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Currency before exchange
UK universities prefer fee-paying students to European ones. Anne Corbett laments our policy on mobility. Is it an idea whose time has come - that British students catch up with their continental...
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The price of success
Although R&D is vital to the bottom line, many British companies seem still not to have got the message. Martin Ince reports Are British companies finally getting enthusiastic about spending...
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Draft conclusions of CREST meeting (scientific and technical research), 8 February 2002
Brussels, 8 March 2002 Scientific and Technical Research Committee ­ CREST Secretariat. Draft summary conclusions of the 281st meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (...
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Glittering prizes
Kate Storey , a principal investigator who runs a research group in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, has received a five-year senior non-clinical fellowship worth £900,000...
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In the news
The key contender to succeed Henry McLeish as Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning is Wendy Alexander, dubbed "the pint-sized policy powerhouse". Noted for her...
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From today's UK papers
Literacy teaching still inadequate, says Ofsted Around 40 per cent of seven-year-olds cannot read and write properly because their teachers are not using the right methods and the government's...
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V-cs: London costs a deterrent
Vice-chancellors at London universities have told London mayor Ken Livingstone that exorbitant housing costs and a failing transport system are threatening the future of their institutions. The...
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Prepare to ring the changes
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