Innovative collaboration
The engineering skills shortage debate has been raised again as the result of a recent report – Excellence in Postgraduate Education: Manufacturing, Materials and Design – published by Cranfield...
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Mock job applications: should they be part of a university degree?
An academic and a graduate give their views on embedding employability into higher education courses
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Catapult centres ‘should number 30 by 2030’
The government should double the annual budget of its innovation agency to £1 billion so it can establish more “Catapult” centres, a new report says
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Campus close-up: Queen Margaret University
A Scottish institution aims to tackle obesity with products developed in a new food innovation centre
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Marking boycott could be suspended next week
UCU to consult on halting action to allow more talks, provided academics’ pay is not docked
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Sir Mark Walport debunks ‘myth’ that he is pushing research agenda
Chief scientific adviser is ‘amused’ by funding conspiracy theories but dismisses them as ‘complete invention’
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Chinese new year
Japan loses its crown to its main regional rival, as massive state funding and innovation pay dividends for the People’s Republic, writes Katie Duncan
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Campus close-up: University of Sussex
Nearing its half-century, the Science Policy Research Unit’s bold bid to find ‘radical solutions’ to global problems will cast the expertise net wide
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AHRC needs new focus and funding to boost creative-industry research
Million+ highlights increasing economic value of sector to the UK. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Discussing the European strategy for biotechnology and the life sciences
Brussels, 05 Aug 2004 The European Commission will host a satellite conference on 'A European strategy for biotechnology and life sciences' at the BIOnale event in Maastricht, the Netherlands, from 2...
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Industry moves to prevent accidents at work
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 European industrial accidents cause an injury every eight seconds, and a death every two hours. These alarming statistics were called 'astonishing and unacceptable', by Janez...
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Societal value at the heart of new Finnish space strategy
Brussels, 05 Jul 2005 Finland has outlined its national space strategy for 2005 to 2007, which has the aim of developing those fields of space science with the most substantial societal impact. The...
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The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson, directed by Julien Temple
Filming in what they believed were Wilko Johnson’s final days, the guitarist and the director offer up a celebratory vision of culture and life, writes Andrew Blake
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Germany aims to send 50 per cent of students abroad by 2020
Plans are part of industrial strategy to steal a march on other export-driven countries