Students link via UK hub
Southampton Institute's business school is at the hub of an international network of students that spans Mexico, the United States, Finland and Ukraine working on marketing projects. The scheme...
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Scots create retail chair
Glasgow Caledonian University has created the first Scottish retail chair in partnership with Scotmid, one of the country's leading co-operative chains. Caledonian Business School has appointed...
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Alliance joins RDA for growth
A strategic alliance including the nine universities in the Yorkshire and Humber region has been launched in collaboration with Yorkshire Forward, the regional development agency. The universities...
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APU scoops health prize
Anglia Polytechnic University has won a national prize for innovation in work-based learning. The New Learning Opportunities Award, sponsored by NIACE, the national organisation for adult learning,...
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Web reveals five kingdoms
The Public Record Office has launched Uniting the Kingdoms? , a web guide to England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and France from 1066 to 1603 www.pro.gov.uk/utk/utk.htm
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Judge joins Unicon ranks
The Judge Institute, Cambridge University's business school, has been admitted to full membership of Unicon - the International University Consortium of Executive Education. Unicon was founded in...
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W3C maths release
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released the Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) 2.0 as a W3C Recommendation. MathML 2.0, an XML application, provides encoding mathematical notation and...
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Pioneers leave trail to follow
The 29 postgraduate students on Form-Ami, an innovative course in advanced multimedia and information technology, are truly at the cutting edge. As pioneers in the European Commission's initiative to...
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Global trade could profit all, given the political will
The internationalisation of education services has yet to receive the detailed attention foreshadowed by the World Trade Organisation more than two years ago. A focus on macroeconomic policy,...
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Latest UK news
Academics fill ranks of people's peers Edinburgh University vice-chancellor Sir Stewart Sutherland and former government chief scientist Sir Robert May are among the first 15 “people’s” peers. Also...
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Latest international news
Austrian tenure talks falter Talks between the Austrian government and university teachers over plans to restrict academic tenure have broken down. The government believes new employment conditions,...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Employment in manufacturing in the United Kingdom will fall by 700,000 over the next 10 years, according to a Warwick University study commissioned by the government. BMW yesterday...
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Higher education appointments
University of Strathclyde Ian Smith will succeed Douglas Weir as dean of the faculty of education. Leslie Sheldon , director of the English language teaching division at the University of Strathclyde...
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Higher education awards
University of Strathclyde Neil McGarvey , politics division, has been awarded the United Kingdom Public Administration Consortium Essay Competition - the prize, an expenses paid visit to Athens to...
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Latest international news
Police halt Venezuelan protest Police have broken up violent protests at the Universidad Central de Venezuela after armed students blocked a session of the university parliament. The students were...