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Minister hits back at AS level flop claims Education minister Baroness Blackstone has hit back at claims that the new advanced subsidiary qualification is a flop with universities, schools and...
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Analysis: Challenge 'too huge' for LSC?
Further education colleges need less red tape, simpler funding and support that does not stifle autonomy to thrive. Can the Learning and Skills Council provide the right conditions? Tony Tysome...
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Wilson defends Garrick rejection
Gerald Wilson, secretary of the Scottish Office education and industry department, has defended the government's decision to turn down the Garrick Committee's call for a chief scientific adviser for...
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Euro chiefs fear erosion of role
The traditional position of European universities is under threat, university chiefs have been warned. Universities have lost their monopoly on teaching and research, with global corporations now...
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Raiders of Euro cash
AN EXCLUSIVE international club of ten "innovative" universities is preparing for a smash-and-grab raid on European funding pots. The European Consortium of Innovative Universities, whose members...
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Maintaining the New Order
The Indonesian Economy Since 1966
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The CIA's role in Animal Farm
The impact of the cold war and the shady role of the United States's Central Intelligence Agency in the production of Animal Farm, Britain's first feature-length animated film, was discussed by...
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Left professors seize chance to overturn Jurassic economy
Left-of-centre professors and academicians are seizing their first chance in nearly a decade to propose radical solutions to Russia's economic ills. Former dissidents, social democrats and reformist...
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Forget the cultural stuff, just give them the lingo
Languages are threatened by a new perception of them as just a skill for getting a job, says Michael Kelly Few people doubt the value of learning foreign languages. Surveys show that about 85 per...
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Big demand for English lessons
STUDENTS in South Korea are learning more about the west as part of their country's Saegaewha, or "Greater Globalisation", programme. English language, western business and other international...
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MM 2001: War without risk
Modern warfare can be a 'political entertainment' in which little is chanced, or a hell where civilians, not armies, are targeted. Mary Kaldor explains The 18th and 19th centuries were periods of...
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Supremo in science plea
Sir William Stewart, former chief scientific adviser to the Cabinet Office, has called for a full-time Scottish chief scientific adviser "with clout" to ensure that science and technology north of...
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Culture collections clubbed together
The Government has placed responsibility for the United Kingdom's numerous collections of cultures and micro-organisms in the hands of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The...
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Globalisation and after
The Cultural Crisis of the Firm - Pattern in Corporate Evolution
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'Closed' centre launches new MSc
A postgraduate centre, effectively closed by Edinburgh University in 1996, has launched the first MSc course of the third millennium, a stone's-throw from its former premises. The Centre for Human...