Source for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk. BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL www...
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Supremo in science plea
Sir William Stewart, former chief scientific adviser to the Cabinet Office, has called for a full-time Scottish chief scientific adviser "with clout" to ensure that science and technology north of...
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Kickstart for small business
Small firms are to be the main beneficiaries of a host of measures to boost the competitiveness of British industry. They will get the lion's share of Pounds 200 million, of which Pounds 125 million...
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Weave ideas for material change
Organisational learning is far more difficult to achieve than individual learning, since knowledge has to be shared and woven into an institution's very fabric. Ideally, organisational learning...
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Agencies hold regional key
WITH a hint of irony, perhaps, the Dearing committee report, in its chapter on the local and regional roles of higher education, concluded that, compared with the rest of the United Kingdom, "in...
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Wellcome to help fund life sciences
The Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Wellcome Trust are planning to join forces to help fund laboratory equipment for health and life science researchers. The collaboration is...
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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 European Commission http://www.echo.lu/ iap/ Call for proposals to...
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When outsiders take over the IT
DURHAM University's motivation in outsourcing its computing services (THES, May 1) and the knock-on effect are of concern to the Universities and Colleges Information Services Association. The stated...
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Globalisation and after
The Cultural Crisis of the Firm - Pattern in Corporate Evolution
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Life learners prepare for radical shifts
The central principle of a lifelong learning curriculum, based on knowledge and citizenship, should be a social theory of learning that runs through our lives like the message in a stick of rock. We...
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Estates of the nation
Universities are hatching ambitious plans involving property disposals, relocations, new buildings and higher usage. Gordon Hood reports The 1990s have seen some of the most dynamic shifts to...
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Building a team for the future
A recent report from the Construction Industry Board has recommended the setting-up of a common foundation course for building industry students, in response to damning criticism of the United...
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Archaeologists dig for gold
Playing the heritage card could help scientists win funding, says Wendy Barnaby Scientists are turning to tourism, the world's fastest-growing industry, as a novel way of winning funding. A recent...
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Courting business is key to progress
Research chief Luciano Criscuoli tells Paul Bompard the government is encouraging the private sector to help fund more research projects After almost 20 years at the Ministry for Universities and...
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Harvard pioneer of digital frontiers
Makin' Numbers - Howard Aiken