IT offers kickstart to Welsh economy

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An examination of a raft of programmes being developed by the University of Glamorgan which could help business regeneration in the valleys of South Wales. Glamorgan, which is also fostering plans for a super-university through mergers with Merthyr Tydfil College and the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, believes that radical change can be encouraged through information technology and as such is developing a corporate approach to campus-based and distance learning that would see it deliver cultural and economic benefits to a region devastated by the destruction of the steel and coal industries.

Planning, Economic aspects, Company business planning, Educational aspects, University of Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil College, University of Wales Institute Cardiff

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V-c row puts jobs in peril

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Natfhe, lecturers' union, has warned that the row between the vice-chancellors of the University of Wales Institute Cardiff and Glamorgan University that led to the collapse of merger talks between the two institutions in December 2003 could now wind up costing lecturers their jobs. The union claims that unless efforts are made to reopen talks between the two, then both institutions will be financially vulnerable and could have to make compulsory redundancies.

Personnel administration, Human resource management, Company personnel management, University of Wales. University College Cardiff

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MRC news 'has not knocked us off course'

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Rick Trainor, new principal of King's College London, is determined not to be pessimistic, despite the college's loss to University College London of a battle to merge with the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research. Trainor insists that the news has not knocked King's off course and that the college has the potential and tool to keep moving forward, so long as it avoids any hint of complacency.

United Kingdom, Management dynamics, Management, Interview, Company business management, Aims and objectives, King's College (London, England), United Kingdom. National Institute for Medical Research, Trainor, Rick

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