UK lab takes star role
An industry-academia collaboration that aims to become the Hollywood of "anytime, anywhere" learning was launched on Monday in London. The Learning Laboratory involves 16 companies and the University...
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Price on dons' heads
Oxford dons will gain a bigger slice of profits earned through exploitation of their research under rules governing the university's growing spin-off businesses. An intellectual property policy that...
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IT news in brief
The University of Derby has opened a centre to develop online assessment and cut paperwork as part of the long-term project Tripartite Interactive Delivery Systems (Triads). Don Mackenzie, director...
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IT news in brief
Video-conferencing is helping teach nurses how to care for terminally ill patients. St Oswald's Hospice in Newcastle is using the equipment after research by the Open University showed that teaching...
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IT news in brief
Teesside Airport's Pounds 360 million expansion plan for international freight can be seen on virtual reality models created by the University of Teesside's VR Centre. The development in Southside is...
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Indicators that drive forward a social agenda
Much time and effort has gone into generating the performance indicators published this week (pages i-xii). The result is a compromise between a government eager to extend accountability by league...
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Invisible universities offer tangible rewards
Globalisation and the knowledge-based economy pose challenges to all purveyors of tertiary education, argues Jamil Salmi Imagine a university without buildings or classrooms or even a library, 10,000...
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Tables for our times
Bahram Bekhradnia tells universities they must learn from the first national measures of their performance, published today Today we are publishing performance indicators for 170 universities and...
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Exploding great green whoppers
The myth that rainforests are vital to the earth is damaging policy-making and the search for scientific truth, says Philip Stott Do we really need rainforests? For the Greens that is a rhetorical...
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Beyond ET and New Ageism
Discovering Archaeology (six times a year) - Minerva
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We have ways of making you noble
The Faber Book of Utopias - 2099
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A revolutionary future of fast travel on needless journeys
Natural Capitalism
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A rallying call for dam busters
The Cost of Living
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Industrious habits of cities past
Indus Age - Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization
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On digging for deities and intoxication
Economy and Society on Prehistoric Europe - The Living Goddesses