Exit strategies: spin-off successes and failures
Fifteen per cent of the university spin-offs incorporated in 2000, 2001 and 2002 have so far made a “successful exit” by way of trade sales or flotations on the stock exchange, data show
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OECD: opening the market door will prove costly
US-style charges await in unregulated system, education expert warns
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27 June 2013
Snap it up - The case for saying ‘yes’ to controversial donations
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Leaders show how to build gay-friendly campus
Stonewall survey rates Cardiff and Liverpool John Moores as best for supporting gay, lesbian and bisexual students
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Such stuff as Chinese dreams are made on
Austin Williams on contrasting film treatments of a nascent superpower’s hopes and dreams
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Visa delays leave London Met students without passports
Those once threatened with deportation can’t leave, v-c tells conference
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Willetts: I don’t want research restricted
Funds are allocated on project quality not desire to support elite, says minister. Chris Parr reports
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THE Scholarly Web - 27 June 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Variety: the spice of life sciences
Pat Monaghan and Tim Birkhead call for variation to be the theme once more in university biology
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Cardiff baker’s dozen: for expiry date, check the REF
University defends short-term contracts as source criticises ‘game-playing’
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(Almost) all donations gratefully received
Universities need clear protocols for accepting money - particularly from outside the UK, argues Chris Higgins
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Leveson’s lessons for the academy
The inquiry’s recommendations echo a similar arrangement in higher education, Rob Behrens says
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‘Big science’, big hype, big mistake
We are paying too high a price for 100,000 genomes more, warns Bill Amos
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New practice in student admissions
The sector will be damaged if integrity in recruitment is lost, says Janet Graham
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The Bourgeois: Between History and Literature by Franco Moretti
Valerie Sanders relishes this considered study of a quietly worthy class of men