Sterling support for a greener tomorrow
'Living' multipartner programme to tackle climate change nets £1bn in funding. Zoe Corbyn reports
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A real fast-track procedure
A pilot scheme aims to take medical advances out of the lab and into practice more quickly, writes Zoe Corbyn
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Media/Cultural/Gender Studies roundup
Key Concepts in Public RelationsAuthors: Bob Franklin, Mike Hogan, Quentin Langley, Nick Mosdell, Eliot PillEdition: First Publisher: SagePages: 2Price: £19.99ISBN: 9781412923194This text aims to...
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Appointments
Rosalind Foskett has taken up her new role as deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Worcester. Dr Foskett previously led work on widening participation, curriculum development, work-based...
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Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: How Scarce Energy Is Creating a New World Order
The dust jacket of this book proclaims that "the price of oil has doubled in less than two years. And it is still rising". Not now it isn't.In early 2008, US investment bank Goldman Sachs, at that...
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Tigers burning bright
Asian higher education is on the rise in a success story that is shaking up the global order. Simon Marginson explains the importance of the Confucian model to the region's progress, while Philip...
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Dude, where's my stimulus?
Kevin Fong bemoans science's continuing inability to secure its future
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When it's a question of sport, one man has the answers
Profile: Simon Chadwick Professor of Sport Business Strategy, Coventry University. Few scholars can say that an encounter with the North Korean football team, at the age of two, set them on the path...
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Grant winners - Medical Research Council
The MRC has awarded £10.6 million to projects to develop better models of human disease, including diabetes, stroke, heart disease and age-related macular degeneration. Twenty research groups will...
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Tara Brabazon: 60 seconds of scholarship
One day, I intend to conduct a study of how university staff download from iTunes. Do vice-chancellors – productively and efficiently – swoop into the site, grab the top ten lectures from iTunes U...
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Appointments
William Wakeham, vice-chancellor of the University of Southampton, has been appointed chair of the South East Physics Network, an association of six university physics departments: the universities...
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Policy watch
LIFELONG LEARNINGDenham lauds 'informal' studyThe Government has launched a consultation on "informal" adult learning that is not designed to lead to a formal qualification. John Denham, the...
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Cross-sector approach to foster skills training
The Government has become too focused on the role that universities can play in improving the skills of the UK workforce, at the expense of further education colleges, which are often better placed...
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Research management must walk before it runs
The profession must take small steps to build its standing, a study has found. Zoë Corbyn reports
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The fanaticism of denial that must be exposed
Scientists must engage more with the public or the HIV/Aids deniers will gain credibility, argues Tara Smith. There is no Aids epidemic in Africa. HIV doesn't exist. People are dying because...