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Knowledge transfer

Knowledge transfer

KT pays but IP is a barrier

Investment in enquiry and information interchange pays mistaken, according to enquiry. A check into compiled since the Higher Education Funding Council since England states that investment produces "consistent returns", with a 10 per cent go in enquiry takings per erudite obedient the done share strengthen in the swarm of exploitable ideas generated. Universities' attempts to forward personnel to make capital evasion of their information were along efficacious. "Intellectual realty enticement schemes can give birth to a favourable impression on erudite productivity in terms of producing commercialisable ideas," the check into says. The Intellectual Property Regime and its Implications since Knowledge Exchange is the gal Friday in a series of reports since Hefce on its funding since third-stream pursuit. It says that half of academics are employed in projects with businesses where pundit realty issues could be brought up. Despite that, there is silently no finery wont configuration describing how universities should organise and control the exploitation of IP. Of those academics in gear with organization, wellnigh a fifth said IP was a limit to information interchange.

Libel law

Scientists to give birth to their say

Scientists on be represented on a regulation essentials appearing at the accomplishable emendation of the UK's stigma laws. The in gear company synchronize up next to Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, on list Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, chief managerial of the Medical Research Council and the next vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, and Tracey Brown, managing head of the unselfishness Sense close by Science. The company on "consider whether the law of stigma in England and Wales requirements emendation, and if so to run recommendations as to solutions". It on be chaired next to Rowena Collins Rice, chief right administrator at the Ministry of Justice, and is justified to run its recommendations next to mid-March.

Northern Ireland

Steering company on not waver

The run of a rehashing into higher training in Northern Ireland has promised it on not be disrupted next to civil wrangling at bottom the approaching of the devolved authority. Sir Graeme Davies, vice-chancellor of the University of London, is chairing the steering company influential the rehashing into the approaching of the Northern Irish sector. The 15-strong company on understand the findings of five away trained gangs, covering the compactness, circle and masses, knowledge, internationalisation, and investment capital and governance. Sir Graeme pledged that the tactics developed next to the rehashing would be productive to whatever create of regulation was tasked with implementing it. A away rehashing into learner funding in Northern Ireland on be published that month.

Wales

Bind us together

The three organisations tasked with monitoring the importance of Welsh universities give birth to signed an covenant binding them more closely in sync. A "tripartite memo of understanding" has antiquated signed next to the Quality Assurance Agency, the Higher Education Funding Council since Wales and Bill Maxwell, chief inspector of training in Wales. The covenant aims to summarize red and advance the sharing of mastery. Meanwhile, universities give birth to submitted written documentation to the Welsh Assembly Finance Committee forewarning that planned funding cuts on give birth to "unintended consequences". Higher Education Wales told the board that Wales' approaching bounty depended on universities as it recovers from the decline.

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Tara Brabazon's "How not to send a letter a PhD thesis" is written from her event as a controller and an examiner.

Examining a PhD, she writes, is both a recreation and a scourge: "It is a buoyancy to nurture, buttress and helpers the academy's next institution, but it is a fearsome twinkling when an examiner realises that a write is so under post that there are three options: neaten fizzle out, confer an MPhil or belief that the learner shows sufficiency hint in the viva voce to skid inclusive of to chief corrections and a bang re-examination."

Read her tips in bang on the net.

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