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New Labour in Power - The British General Election of 1997 - From Blitz to Blair
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Ashdown commits party to science budget boost
Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown yesterday committed his party to boosting the science budget to levels last seen in 1979. Giving the Save British Science Society annual lecture at Imperial...
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The elitism of 'people like us'
TWO FACTORS will shape the future of the university in Britain: trends and political policy. Both major political parties agree that higher education must accord with economic circumstances. This...
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The market is not the only measure
Scientific enterprise has transformed life across the world in recent decades and is now doing so again. Research provides the knowledge base for information technology, biotechnology and the other...
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Totem for renewal
Rising East
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Britain's lone plea to cut ESA spending
British officials will next week call on the European Space Agency to slash its Pounds 0 million annual budget by 25 per cent over a five-year period. At a meeting of space ministers from ESA member...
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Lang to boost Scots training links
Ian Lang, Secretary of State for Scotland, plans to boost training links between further education colleges and local companies as part of Scotland's strategy following the White Paper on business...
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When teaching interrupts the real work
Lecturers should not be afraid of educationists. They need to get involved in research into teaching methods, says Paul Orsmond Not many higher education lecturers will be promoted because of their...
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Europeans protect university tradition
David Jobbins reports from Palermo on higher education's preparations for the 1998 Unesco world conference. EUROPEAN rectors have lent their support to a declaration on the future of Europe's...
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Call for central control
A central planning agency is urgently required to make higher education meet the needs of a modern learning society, ministers have been told. The agency should preside over funding incentives and...
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Earful of sound advice on the best ways to tap the beat
The Computer Music Tutorial
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Power to the regions
SWOT opportunities: A growing focus on the regions, exemplified in Spain and now Scotland, offers new opportunities to UK universities. Paul Heywood hopes they will be able to exploit them. It has...
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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 Cancer Research Campaign 10 Cambridge Terrace London NW1 4JL Tel:...
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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 THERE are important similarities between the report of the...
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Fees the only option
Students stranded by Brown's budget. FEES for students became a near certainty this week when Gordon Brown's budget failed to find any extra cash for higher education. While the Chancellor managed to...