FE enrolments to double, says funding council
Funding chiefs claimed this week that further education will soon be back on target for recruiting more students, writes Tony Tysome. This is despite numbers falling for two consecutive years. The...
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Fighter refused to play Hollywood's shame game
A Very Dangerous Citizen
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Check emails, fix up meeting with councillors, buy Kit Kat
Just what do vice-chancellors do all day? Harriet Swain joins Michael Brown of Liverpool John Moores University to find out, in the first in a series on the working lives of people in higher...
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Yale academic seeks no-strike lecture pledge
The bestselling British author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers has stepped into a dispute between Yale University and its graduate teaching assistants by laying down conditions under which...
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Worldbeaters 'pool resources'
Universities should become more like private sector companies, axeing weaker courses and focusing on their strengths, vice-chancellors are to be told. To compete successfully in increasingly...
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The European Research Area, towards 3% of EU GDP (Extracted from Council/Commission press releases on the Competitiveness Council of 26 November)
Brussels, th November 2002 The Council held an exchange of views, based on the Commission's communication, " The European Research Area: Providing new momentum - Strengthening, reorienting, opening...
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Plea for French-built synchrotron
France should develop a new-generation synchrotron on its own territory, a parliamentary committee has unanimously concluded, flatly contradicting former research minister Claude All gre's decision...
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News in brief
V-cs shun 'Mickey Mouse' and elite tag Vice-chancellors have hit back at claims that universities are purveyors of "Mickey Mouse" degrees and elitism. Universities UK launched its Employability and...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Unwanted Christmas gifts are economically inefficient. John Kay examines US academic Joel Waldford's super-rational view of Christmas. É«ºÐÖ±²¥ GUARDIAN Thirty-six Scottish pupils may...
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Falling fortunes of the lands of the rising sun
The Great Divergence
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IT and research ambitions of the Presidency
Copenhagen, 28 June 2002 During the Danish Presidency, the Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation, Helge Sander, will be the President of two Councils of Ministers: Telecommunications (IT...
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From Darwin to Internet at the speed of light
Paris, 26 Nov 2002 Internet traffic jams may become history if ESA succeeds in developing new technology to see nearby Earth-sized planets. Why? In looking for new ways to detect planets ESA is...
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Commissaire Philippe Busquin: Pour une Europe plus propre et plus sûre,Conférence de presse Présentation des communications de la Commission sur GMES et la Sécurité Bruxelles, le 3 février 2004
Bruxelles, le 3 f évrier 2004 Mesdames et messieurs les journalistes, je vous remercie de votre présence. Je suis heureux d'être ici ce matin, en compagnie de mon collègue Erkki Liikanen, pour...
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Commissaire Philippe Busquin: Pour une Europe plus propre et plus sûre,Conférence de presse Présentation des communications de la Commission sur GMES et la Sécurité Bruxelles, le 3 février 2004
Bruxelles, le 3 f évrier 2004 Mesdames et messieurs les journalistes, je vous remercie de votre présence. Je suis heureux d'être ici ce matin, en compagnie de mon collègue Erkki Liikanen, pour...
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G8 members commit to lifelong learning
Leaders of the world's industrial nations have signed a charter outlining their common goals on lifelong learning. G8 members signed the charter at their recent summit in Germany. It says that...