Africa’s mobile phone e-learning transformation
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So many aspirant doctors, so little time
EUA report uncovers global commonalities in PhD education. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Short and the long of it
The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright
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Keep the cream, Willetts tells 'cash cow' business schools
Minister says cross-subsidisation of other units should be rethought. David Matthews writes
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Campus round-up
Hot stuffResearchers have been awarded £765,000 for a three-year study into the physical processes behind the super-hot ionised plasma that appears on the Sun. The Science and Technology Facilities...
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International students like to be where someone knows their name
Family ties are a big influence on which location people choose for study. Julie Hare reports
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Research Commissioner Janez POTOCNIK: The Future of EU Research - chances for the new Member States The Polish Lisbon Strategy Forum
Warsaw, 4 February 2005 The Polish Lisbon Strategy Forum Warsaw, 4 February 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, I could not have addressed the issue of European Competitiveness and the future of R&D...
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Bruising but beneficial
The coalition's controversial higher education reforms are delivering a more progressive and sustainable system, argues Vince Cable
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Appointments
Bucks New UniversityTheo GavrielidesBucks New University has appointed Theo Gavrielides visiting professor in youth policy at its School of Social Sciences, Primary Care and Education and made him a...
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Conference on Women in Industrial Research - Speeding up Changes in Europe - Berlin, 10 October
Brussels, 30 Sep 2003 Who? Philippe Busquin, Commissioner for Research, European Commission Prof. Helga Rübsamen-Waigmann, Vice President, Bayer HealthCare, Head of Anti-infectives Research and...
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Conference on Women in Industrial Research - Speeding up Changes in Europe - Berlin, 10 October
Brussels, 30 Sep 2003 Who? Philippe Busquin, Commissioner for Research, European Commission Prof. Helga Rübsamen-Waigmann, Vice President, Bayer HealthCare, Head of Anti-infectives Research and...
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News in brief
A-level reformsOnce a year is enough, says sectorStudents in England will no longer be able to sit A-level exams in January, Ofqual has said. From September 2013, students starting their courses will...
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Informal meeting of Industry and Research Ministers, 1+2 February 2002
Brussels, 31 January 2002 EU Industry and Research ministers will meet for two days in Girona, Spain. During the first day, they will hold three debates together. On the second day they will meet...
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Scots explore foreign ideas for industry initiative
Academics and industrialists are joining together in a bid to make Scotland a European leader in commercialising research in science and technology. Both sectors have given broad support to a draft...
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Access and excellence, locally and globally
In an era of disinvestment in the US’ public universities, the greatest of their number has improved its reputation through creativity, entrepreneurialism and innovation, says Robert Birgeneau