Innovate or atrophy
Charles Leadbeater warns academics that ministers view them as insular and irrelevant A gulf of distrust and mutual misapprehension has opened up between the government and intellectuals in recent...
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Millennium magic
This week the government published its plans for lifelong learning and its responses to both the Kennedy and the Dearing reports. Below, The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S examines reaction to the first two, while on the...
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Courses for menu-driven TV
To keep pace with a fragmented and revolutionised TV industry, training must innovate and not imitate, argues David Plowright. For the first 40 years of its life, broadcasting was valued more as a...
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APPOINTMENTS University of Edinburgh Professoressor James Ironside has assumed the role of Director of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit. Under management restructuring plans...
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Wars: how to start and stop one
Strategic Coercion - Why Wars Happen
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Lives bound by parties and gifts
Women of China - Women of the long march
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New spins on the web
HELPING to judge the 1997 UCISA Web Awards was an eye opener. I thought I knew fairly well what British academics are doing on the web. But impressive new sites had appeared. Familiar ones had grown...
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Go tell it to the employees
Competence-based training is not new to the Scottish vocational and education and training scene. Assessments based on the ability to demonstrate and do, and assessment and education and training...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Corporation of London Robert Blair Fellowship in Applied Science...
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Sweet music for bio brigade
Biological sciences look healthy with a big funding boost and new buildings, writes Julia Hinde With the comprehensive spending review over, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council...
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A place for everyone in a joined-up lifelong sector
Third in our summer series on education at at century's end, David Melville precicts a seamless post-16 learning environment. Greater challenges lie ahead for further education, and for post-16...
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Facing up to market forces
Universities are waking up to the fact that their position as primary providers of post-secondary knowledge is under attack. Alison Goddard reports on challenges that lie ahead Seven years ago Sir...
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Japanese build on teams
Workers at Japanese manufacturing firms in the United Kingdom are involved much more in the running and management of their plants than employees in British and other foreign-owned companies,...
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Smaller may be better
International Technology Transfer by Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
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Prussian animated by English sewage
Justus von Liebig