Survivors guide to 'internet tsunami'
Anyone in higher education who thinks that online technologies are not going to affect bricks and mortar institutions should consider an e-business course being taught by Jack Wilson at Rensselaer...
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Biotech spin-off scoops Pounds 11m for drug development
A biotechnology spin-off company set up by university scientists has raised Pounds 11 million in venture capital backing. The deal, thought to be the largest sum raised through venture capital by a...
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Wing commanders
(Photograph) - A team of students from Loughborough University and Virginia Tech, in the US, has won the innovative design category of the US National General Aviation Design Competition. The winning...
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Business link-up creates top MBA
The University of Queensland has established unique links with one of ߣߣÊÓƵ's biggest business schools in Melbourne and with the Singapore Institute of Management. In a national first for...
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Net firm bows to authors' demands
Canadian academics, angered by an agreement that allows an American e-commerce operation to sell their theses and dissertations over the internet, have convinced the company to remove their writings...
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Blue skies need vigilant champions
The wealth of good things at this week's British Association Festival of Science, in London to mark the millennium, reminds us of the golden age of scientific discovery in which we are living. The...
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Let them decide how good they want to be
In the final part of our series on universities in the 21st century, Tim Knox argues for freedom from social engineering, targets for participation and other constraints on the pursuit of quality. "A...
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Flaws in case for pay by region
If we take two professors aged 50 on the same salary, one in London, one in the North, where under today's rules they would probably be earning similar wages at retirement in 2015, in Andrew Oswald's...
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Flaws in case for pay by region
Unless professors of economics get recycled around Britain like a junk bond, it is hard to imagine that they (or any universal man) should have an equally sound grasp of what a pound might buy in...
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Flaws in case for pay by region
Oswald's arguments about teachers and nurses hardly apply to university teachers, because universities compete in a specialised national labour market, not a local one. The high cost of living in...
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Flaws in case for pay by region
Oswald resists the conclusions of his own argument because it leads to the need for a clear distinction between pay and allowances rather than their conflation. In short, if we want the same job done...
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The wrong league
What have students' entry qualifications and graduates' employability to do with the quality of training of effective teachers ("Elite schools rival sector in teacher training", THES, September 1)?...
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Spitalfields' soul
Universities do not have souls ("London Guildhall is accused of selling its soul to the City", THES, September 1). However, the old City of London Polytechnic did have a fairly democratic forum, the...
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A modem in the hand
Paul Taylor's indictment of technology ("Beware geeks bearing modems", Talking Shop, THES, September 1) misses the mark. Unlike Luddite,"geek" says nothing about the technological proclivities of an...
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A 'right' or wrong
Sarah Fitzpatrick (Opinion, THES, September 1) reminds us of the claim that graduates earn on average Pounds 400,000 more than non-graduates over their lifetime. That means Pounds 88,000 to Pounds...