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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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Sandel on values when everything’s for sale
Matthew Reisz meets Harvard superstar Michael Sandel to discuss the preservation of the public good
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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
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Loud and clear
Researchers didn't hold back when EPSRC head Paul Golby asked for feedback on the council's workings. Things will improve, he vows
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Appointments - 28 March 2013
University of LeedsPaul Stewart“I had a tear in my eye,†said the new dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds of the moment he learned of his appointment, which will take him back...
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Awards and promotions
University of LeedsPaul Stewart“I had a tear in my eye,†said the new dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Leeds of the moment he learned of his appointment, which will take him back...
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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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Candidates, follow our curriculum and prepare for global government
Billionaire-backed Oxford school takes leaf out of US book. David Matthews reports
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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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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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There and Back Again: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Origins of the Hobbit
Like the road in Bilbo Baggins' song, the Tolkien industry goes ever on. No self-respecting medievalist's pension plan is complete, it seems, without a "pop" book explaining how J.R.R. got it all...
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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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News in brief
Jargon competitionCalling all guardians of clarity"Instead of adding to the overall footprint we are looking at the whole envelope of estate in terms of its conditionality." If that sentence makes no...
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The old heave-ho
Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, Gerald Kauvar and E. Grady Bogue on the many reasons higher education leaders end up walking the plank