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• North schools fail the Oxbridge test

  - 2006-12-27

  Byline: By Andrew Hughes North East state schools are sending fewer pupils to Oxbridge than other parts of the country. A new league table, gathered under the freedom of information laws, shows the most successful state schools at getting pupils into Oxford and Cambridge University. The figures...

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• University-Industry Interactions: the Case of the UK Biotech Industry

  - 2006-12-01

  ABSTRACT This paper's focus is on both the geography of entrepreneurship and on industry-collaborative links internationally, nationally and at the local level in the UK biotech industry, the world's second largest biotech industry. The paper reports on a pilot survey of the UK biotech industry. The survey has two goals:...

  Tags: Biotechnology, Cohen, innovation, R&D, survey, technology, U.K., University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• Books received/Livres recus

  - 2006-06-22

  Almond, Phil et Anthony Ferner, editors, American Multinationals in Europe. Managing Employment Relations across National Borders, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006, 346 p. Belanger, Laurent et Jean Mercier, Auteurs et textes classiques de la theorie des organisations, Quebec, Presses de l'Universite Laval PUL, 2006, 575 p B.-Turcotte, Marie-France...

  Tags: Books, Borders Books & Music, Cornell University, DES, Globalization, NETWORKING, SECURITY, Strategy, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford

• MacArthur Foundation Awards $3M to OpenNet Initiative and Harvard Law's Berkman Center to Advance Global Internet Filtering Research

  - 2006-01-26

  CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded $3 million to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and its partners to advance their collaborative study of state-sponsored Internet filtering worldwide through the OpenNet Initiative. In the past two...

  Tags: Berkman Center, Harvard Law School, INTERNET, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Toronto

• Books received

  - 2005-09-01

  ADNETT, NICK, and STEPHEN HARDY. The European Social Model: Modernisation or Evolution? Chelten-2005. Pp. 244. Cloth $95.00. AGELL, JONAS, MICHAEL KEEN, and ALFONS J. WEICHENREIDER, eds. Labor Market Institutions and Public Regulation. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2005. Pp. 228. Cloth $35.00. AGLIETTA, MICHEL, and ANTOINE REBERIOUX. Corporate Governance Adrift:...

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• Books received

  - 2005-03-01

  AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK. Africa in the Global Trading System: African Development Report 2004. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 337. Paper $29.95. ALESINA, ALBERTO, and EDWARD L. GLAESER. Fighting Poverty in the U.S. and Europe: A World of Difference. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 264. Cloth...

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• Forthcoming reviews.

  - 2005-02-01

  Books listed here have been assigned for review in the past quarter. Publication of their reviews or reports generally would occur within the next four issues of the journal. Persons interested in reviewing specific books must notify the editor soon after the publication date for the...

  Tags: analysis, modeling, Springer-Verlag, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Wiley

• Forthcoming reviews.

  - 2004-11-01

  Books listed here have been assigned for review in the past few months. Publication of their reviews or reports generally would occur within the next four issues of the journal. Persons interested in reviewing specific books must notify the editor soon after the publication date for...

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• Books received

  - 2004-09-01

  31NETWORK. India Infrastructure Report 2004: Ensuring Value for Money. New York: Oxford University press, 2004. Pp. 347. Paper $35.00. ADAMS, WALTER, and JAMES W. BROCK. The Bigness Complex: Industry, Labor, and Government in the American Economy. 2d ed. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2004. Pp. 380. Paper $24.95....

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• The Hundredth Boat Race: April 3rd, 1954.(Months Past)(Cambridge University)(Oxford University)

  - 2004-04-01

  COLLEGE BOAT races had begun at Oxford by 1815, but rowing was slower to develop at Cambridge, where the Cam was not much better than a sewer. It was the Cambridge University Boat Club, however, which took the initiative in challenging Oxford to the first university match...

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