Guru hailed as a world-wide Weber
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Manuel Castells is a sociologist who specialises in seeking to understand the impact of the information age. He is sociology at planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Castells identifies an excluded fourth world which he locates in developing societies, and in deprived areas of developed economies such as prisons, ghettoes, and isolated suburbs in France. Governments are able to become involved in the information age by controlling universities. Genuine research cannot easily be fostered in universities, but it can bring great benefits if it is successful.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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Medical man with a research message
Article Abstract:
The National Health Service is to invest more of its budget into research by increasing the amount spent from 0.9% of its budget to 1.5% by 1998. Results of research will be filtered down to practitioners by research dissemination units, and data from medical trials will be made available. Research and development units will be set up regionally to disseminate results. The aim is to alert practitioners to new developments and allow researchers access to practitioners also.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1993
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