Funding council aims to boost business ties
The Higher Education Funding Council for England is planning a "third leg" of support alongside its funding of research and teaching. It wants to help institutions boost their "professional...
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Life learners prepare for radical shifts
The central principle of a lifelong learning curriculum, based on knowledge and citizenship, should be a social theory of learning that runs through our lives like the message in a stick of rock. We...
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Bridging cultural space big enough to test Nasa
The key to success for the GLA and London is partnership with educational institutions, says Trevor Phillips In public school novels, the boys of School House (or whatever) seldom stray off the...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this service is...
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When you're old, who cares how you die?
Doctors' failure to recognise that her mother was suffering from CJD alerted Judith Okely to the medical profession's inherent ageism. The crisis over mad cow disease has shown how scientific...
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To get the people in, first listen
Mary Stuart knows at first hand the life of the inner-city poor. Now a Sussex pro vice-chancellor, she is determined to give them every chance to attend university, writes Pat Leon. Mary Stuart was a...
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Philippe Busquin: "Préparer un plan d'action ambitieux pour la politique spatiale européenne et faire de l'Europe le leader spatial du 21ième siècle", Conférence de clôture, Livre vert 'politique spat
Paris, 24 Juin 2003 Mesdames les Ministres, Messieurs les Directeurs Généraux, Mesdames Messieurs, Je suis heureux d'être ici aujourd'hui pour la conclusion de la consultation sur le Livre vert dédié...
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On the move
Michael Brown, pro vice-chancellor of De Montfort University, has been appointed vice-chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. Peter Gilroy, of Manchester Metropolitan University, will be...
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Business brothers 'beyond reproach'
There is a remarkably cosy family atmosphere at Cardiff Business School. Nigel Piercy, professor of marketing and strategy at the business school, works closely with his wife, senior research...
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Dangerous enthusiasm of new boulton boss
In her enthusiasm to clean up Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education, new principal Christine Braddock is in danger of contravening the institution's rules of governance. Last week...
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Euro stars
Industrial Enterprise and European Integration
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Better pensions cost money
Alastair McDougall could be accused of proposing the wrong solution to the wrong problem at the wrong time. If there is genuine concern about the stress levels of university staff these should be...
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A revolutionary future of fast travel on needless journeys
Natural Capitalism
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On the move
Ray Dowd, principal and chief executive of Hopwood Hall College, Rochale has been appointed principal and chief executive of Wirral Metropolitan College. He will succeed Jenny Shackleton, who is...
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Rivalry hits Oz market in Asia
The lack of a coherent strategy to market ߣߣÊÓƵn education institutions in Asia is putting a Aus$3 billion-a-year (Pounds 1.2 million) export industry at risk, according federal government...