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Laddismo foot on the clutch
DURING a seminar on transport and society in 1993 three of my students worked out a project that had us hastening two kilometres across town to a pub called the Graf Eberhard, named after the 15th-...
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Dole line management
Actively Seeking Work
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Cassandra's clueless heirs
The Business of Economics
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Science base rocked to core
As the academies warn that research capability is under threat, Tony Trinci puts flesh on the bones they rattle. The November 1995 Budget represents a defining moment for university education and...
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Space odyssey
Fari Akhlaghi describes the launch of an MBA in facilities management. Last year Sheffield Hallam University launched an MBA programme in facilities management. Already it is able to boast 33...
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Equality orientation
Women's Work in East to West
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Grants
King's College, London Charities Dr M. Irving, Pounds 173,257 from the Wellcome Trust (coupling between force production and ATP utilisation in skeletal muscle); Professor P. Jenner, Pounds 44,765...
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Hungry for change
Why do people eat what they do? Researchers from across Britain have come up with different answers, reports Anne Murcott At the beginning of the 1990s, Britons were perhaps more food conscious than...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF READING (continued) Research contracts Professor D. Bassett, Pounds ,642 from New Energy & Industrial Technology (fundamental studies on crystallisation of polymer with emphasis...
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The political hot potatoes
As the party conference season gets under way, The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S asked the government and the opposition parties what they see as the next big political issues facing higher education. Each spokesperson was...
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Totem for renewal
Rising East
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How can Cinderella join her big sister at the ball?
Emma Westcott hopes the Dearing inquiry will resist the temptation to develop higher education at the expense of its poorer relative É«ºÐÖ±²¥RE are important similarities between the report of the...
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We must use the technology
Foresight panels had a rocky start but should now carry on.Ben Gill explains. The 1993 White Paper Realising Our Potential highlighted the need to make wealth creation the major driver in...
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Equipment goes down the tubes...
Kam Patel reports on a survey that reveals many research laboratories are limping along with decrepit equipment. Centrifuges, fermenters, scintillation counters, computers and spectrophotometers -...