The political hot potatoes
As the party conference season gets under way, The THES 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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Treasure tests
The Politics of Display
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Japanese build on teams
Workers at Japanese manufacturing firms in the United Kingdom are involved much more in the running and management of their plants than employees in British and other foreign-owned companies,...
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Pining for the union halls
The Cultural Front
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Grants
University of Birmingham European funds Dr G. Boons, Pounds 71,269 from the Commission (synthetic saccharides to study the immunological properties of type III group B streptoccus oligosaccharides);...
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Mexico signs training deal
John Major has signed up to an agreement with Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo which could spark a business bonanza for the burgeoning British training industry. Mexico has been given $265 million...
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V-cs embrace virtual futures with edge of rivalry
THE potential delights and possible dangers of cyberspace are attracting the attention of Australia's most senior academics. Drawn by the prospect of using the Internet to teach courses more cheaply...
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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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Accidental focus on Britain
Accident and Design
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Catastrophe converter
How can the insurance industry's record losses from natural disasters in recent years be reduced? Howard Kunreuther has some solutions The insurance industry is gravely concerned that it cannot...
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Honorary degrees
University of Oxford DCL: Roman Herzog, president of the Federal Republic of Germany; Martin Jacomb, chairman of the British Council; Peter Taylor, former Lord Chief Justice of England. DLitt:...
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New government prefers to control
Nineteen-ninety-seven has been a dramatic year. In May the new model Labour party swept to power in the general election with an even larger majority than expected. A surge of euphoria greeted its...
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Dismal science illumined
Oxford Dictionary of Economics
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The radical assault on our health
FREE RADICALS AND OXIDATIVE STRESS: ENVIRONMENT, DRUGS AND FOOD ADDITIVES.Edited by C. Rice-Evans, B. Halliwell and G. G. Lunt. Portland Press 6pp, Pounds 65.00. ISSN 0067 8694. FREE RADICALS IN...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Research contracts (continued) Dr P. James-Roxby and Mr R. Chance, Pounds 60,620 from TCD and Pounds 19,500 from Thomas Walker Ltd. (introduction of ultrasonic and solar-...