Campus round-up - 15 August 2013
Source: GettyFor good growth, add soap and waterChildren under the age of five who have access to clean water and soap are half a centimetre taller than those who lack such basics, a study shows. The...
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Letters
Learn from Met record or get stuck on repeatHow well acquainted is Michael Shattock with London Metropolitan University? (鈥溾楾he best board I ever sat on鈥欌, 30聽May.) In drawing parallels between HBOS...
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Keep up the good work: Willetts
Wilson response sees limited role for Whitehall in industry/academy links. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Appointments
University of HuddersfieldJohn PlayleThe new dean of human and health sciences at the University of Huddersfield joked that you can break yourself into the role by playing "the new person for the...
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From selling crack to sociology
A failed dealer used his insider status to research drugs, violence and the American Dream
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Appointments
University of LuxembourgLudwig NeysesA University of Manchester academic has been appointed vice-president for research at the University of Luxembourg. Ludwig Neyses, currently chair in medicine and...
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How can universities support students to work harder?
A new generation of 鈥榙ual-intensive鈥 universities can do the job, argues Edward Acton
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A house divided can't stand
Fawzi Ibrahim implores the UCU to work collectively to save itself from political turmoil and financial meltdown
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Finnish Minister of Trade and Industry Mauri Pekkarinen: Growing resources for a green future - investing in science and technology (link)
Helsinki, 20 October 2006 Growing resources for a green future - investing in science and technology Speech by Minister of Trade and Industry Mauri Pekkarinen European Conference on Biorefinery...
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If those who pay the pipers call the tune, make the fact public
Universities must disclose scholars' financial conflicts of interest or the integrity of faculty opinion will be jeopardised, says Cary Nelson
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Letters
UK still suffers trips of the tonguesYour editorial 鈥淎 timely look under the bonnet鈥 (22聽August) is right to draw attention to the issue of language degrees, but one of the figures was inaccurate. As...
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The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania
How to establish a serious national tourist agenda when the most famous person associated with your country is not only someone you'd rather not be associated with but furthermore is fictional?...
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Conference on Industrial Technologies - European manufacturing of the future, 1-2 December, Milan
Brussels, 22 Sep 2003 A major conference on 'European Manufacturing of the Future: role of research and education for European leadership' is being organised by the Commission in Milan on 1 and 2...
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Provisional Agenda of the 13 May Competitiveness (Internal Market, Industry and Research) Council
Brussels, 09 May 2003 Full text of Document 8924/03 Suite of documents 8924/03 1. Adoption of the agenda 2. Approval of the list of "A" items 9073/03 PTS A 23 HORIZONTAL ISSUES 3. Industrial and...
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Raising the bars
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education鈥檚 reach and quality? Chris Parr investigates