Lionel Jospin's government is encouraging innovation by allowing collaborations between state scientists and industry and providing millions of francs. Jane Marshall reports France's new law to make...
The rules governing the next research assessment exercise are to be changed to allow academics interested in research into teaching to submit their work on an equal footing with other researchers....
MELBOURNE. David Kemp has just suffered one of the worst humiliations ever experienced by an ߣߣÊÓƵn education minister. And it was at the hands of his prime minister and cabinet colleagues....
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, yesterday urged Scottish universities and research institutes to bid for Pounds 11 million of new funding to commercialise...
The Arts and Humanities Re-earch Board is setting up research centres across the United Kingdom, kicking off with up to 15 in 2000-01. Michael Jubb, director of the AHRB, said the move will help to...
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