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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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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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Sources for research funding
LEVERHULME TRUST www.leverhulme.org.uk 2001 Leverhulme Prize Fellowships Leverhulme Prize Fellowships are designed to recognise and facilitate the work of outstanding young research scholars of...
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The CIA's role in Animal Farm
The impact of the cold war and the shady role of the United States's Central Intelligence Agency in the production of Animal Farm, Britain's first feature-length animated film, was discussed by...
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Talent-spotting for equity and excellence
The University of Cape Town is taking radical steps to prove that excellence is not the preserve of white males, says vice-chancellor Mampehla Ramphele Will all the civil wars, bombs and industrial...
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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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Why are there top dogs in global science?
In the run up to Unesco's World Conference on Science, Tom Phelan and Stephen Cole discuss their research on national variations in scientific productivity It is clear that a relatively small group...
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Heavy metal for the data age
Stephen Quigley celebrates the creation of the first working stored-program computer "May 6th 1949. Machine in operation for first time. Printed a table of squares (0-99), time for programme 2 mins,...
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Innovate or atrophy
Charles Leadbeater warns academics that ministers view them as insular and irrelevant A gulf of distrust and mutual misapprehension has opened up between the government and intellectuals in recent...
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Final harvest at Long Ashton
Why might a research station that has won annual grants of Pounds 5m be closed? Natasha Loder reports Earlier this summer a quiet catastrophe unfolded in the village of Long Ashton, on the outskirts...
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Darwin for true believers
The Dynamic Society Exploring The Sources of Global Change
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Give us Pounds 5 billion and we'll give back more
The CVCP aims to persuade the government that higher education is vital to wealth creation and social inclusion. Tony Tysome reports Vice-chancellors conjured scenes from Oliver Twist last week, when...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this...