Ideas cast in all corners
Twelve of the world's top academics have come together to provide a global lecture service, launched on Monday. The 12, including Richard Dawkins, Sir David Weatherall, and business guru John Kay,...
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For-profit pioneer muscles in on market
For the first time, a for-profit private institution has been given the go-ahead to grant Canadian bachelor degrees. The Alberta government passed a recent order to accredit the United States-based...
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Confident student finds £400,000 in data chaos
An Edinburgh University PhD student has won business angel backing of £400,000 for innovative software he believes will help people "make sense of information chaos". Alex Heneveld, an American...
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Antenna makes mobiles smaller and safer
Safer and more efficient mobile phones the size of a credit card are on the horizon after a chance discovery by a Warwick University engineer. Roger Green has come up with a revolutionary new antenna...
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Digital dare
Leading computer games entrepreneur Chris van der Kuyl this week launched a Scotland-wide competition for students who want to follow in his footsteps. Teams of undergraduates and postgraduates can...
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Full bloom
A database of Israeli flora and fauna has been developed on an internet site by a team of researchers at the Hebrew University. The database, called BioGIS, is the first of its kind in Israel. It...
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Online voice
The Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit at the University of Teesside is helping the Hansard Society to run an online consultation with MPs on the social security select committee....
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Learning companion
Cranfield University's department of process and systems engineering and its department of power engineering and propulsion have developed a web-based learning system to support postgraduate and...
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Innovation framework
Proposals for a European Union research and innovation framework programme will be discussed at the Stockholm Summit on March 23 and 24. The European Commission is proposing a budget of €17.5 billion...
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Standing firm
The European Parliament has resisted calls from lobbyists to unstitch the compromise that was struck over academic copying rights in the proposed digital copyright directive last year at the European...
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German novices receive support
A German university has set up a business incubator to help entrepreneurial students turn their internet ideas into successful e-business ventures. Frankfurt University's "unibator", the first of its...
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£120m boost for research
Scottish higher education has won £120 million in a series of funding boosts for research and commercialisation. Scotland's share of the Science Research Infrastructure Fund is £45 million, but the...
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Critical minds no longer welcome on campus
Struggling to get some sleep on the London flight, I thought about how often I had made the journey, and why this was the first time since my return to South Africa in 1983 that I had left without a...
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Why I... believe we need to do more to combat fraud in scientific research
Fraud in a scientific journal can range from having the same material published more than once, to plagiarism or the fabrication of data. We do not know how common it is. Some of us who take an...
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No more have-nots
Poorer pupils are put off HE by a system geared to the middle class. John Beckett argues for change. What does widening participation really mean? I pose the question as the widening participation/...