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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Haphazard hazards
Natural Risk and Civil Protection
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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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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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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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Turning green into gold
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences. This week The THES summer series on research begins. As mainstream teaching ends for the summer vacation in much of higher education, academic staff and...
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Disposable assets
Should we recycle paper? Roland Clift and David Pearce disagree about the most economical and environmental way of getting rid of rubbish. The paper industry is investing in recycling. The recent...
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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...
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The lesson to learn from Ern
Eliot to Derrida - After Derrida
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Transfer stuns Bodmer
The retiring director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund was 'amazed and astonished' by the recent fate of the OST. He explains why to Kam Patel. Sir Walter Bodmer, the leading geneticist and...
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Business worry for assessors
Business and management course providers have emerged as too complacent in the latest quality assessments by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Only one of 13 higher education...
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Sacked lecturers as cheap labour
An agricultural college is making six lecturers compulsorily redundant and offering them jobs back as "practical instructors" on half their previous pay. A total of 12 horticultural lecturers' jobs...
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Caxton: is he dead or merely resting?
Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads
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Cloning a golden fleece
Dolly the sheep had two 'parents' - one private, the other public. Olga Wojtas talks to the MD who saw that cloning could be profitable The science story of 1997 was undoubtedly the cloning of Dolly...