Local centres key to wealth
Innovation centres based in world-class universities and college-based technology institutes were unveiled this week as part of the government's white paper on enterprise, skills and innovation. Both...
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Materials and systems for optical data storage and processing: concerted European research action (COST)
Brussels, 18 March 2002 European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST Secretariat. Memorandum of Understanding for the implementation of a European Concerted Research...
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Adult access model muddled
A single national fund is needed for the prime minister's vision of a broadband Britain to become a reality, according to a leading e-learning expert. The broadband network is considered essential...
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IT news in brief
Ucas targets training The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology will jointly launch a business and community training centre in Cheltenham...
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Time to educate the UK about sustainability
The world summit in August should put sustainability higher up the education sector's agenda, says Sara Parkin. More than a year ago, education was passed over as a theme for August's World Summit on...
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Plan will give students money and prospects
Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh has launched a multi-pronged campaign to boost students' career opportunities without hampering their studies. A key element of QMUC's Investors in...
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The shooting of British icons
British Stars and Stardom - The British Cinema Book
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Philippe Busquin: "Pr¨¦parer un plan d'action ambitieux pour la politique spatiale europ¨¦enne et faire de l'Europe le leader spatial du 21i¨¨me si¨¨cle", Conf¨¦rence de cl?ture, Livre vert 'politique spat
Paris, 24 Juin 2003 Mesdames les Ministres, Messieurs les Directeurs G¨¦n¨¦raux, Mesdames Messieurs, Je suis heureux d'¨ºtre ici aujourd'hui pour la conclusion de la consultation sur le Livre vert d¨¦di¨¦...
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UK sets lower renewable energy target than recommended by Commission
Brussels, 10 January 2002 The UK's Energy Minister, Brian Wilson, has announced that 2002 will be 'the year of renewables' in his country, and that the government is investing around 420 million euro...
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Sainsbury ups game in play for extra cash
Science minister Lord Sainsbury has promised to put in an "ambitious" bid for cash to the next comprehensive spending review despite economic circumstances being more difficult than for the last...
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UK news in brief
Belfast students are target of blast bomb There has been outrage in Belfast over the attempted murder of students in a house adjoining a nationalist area in the south of the city. A blast bomb...
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After John and Paul, picture this alliance
The recently discovered cache of previously unpublished photographs of The Beatles at Dundee University is also a treasure trove for its sister university across the Tay, St Andrews. Two years ago,...
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Leader: Ministers could find full-cost fees too hot to handle
Taken on the evidence of one surprising week, the Brave New World of higher education is like a London bus. You wait for ages for one big initiative to appear and then two come along at once....
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Analysis: How deep must students dig?
In the second of our series on what the government must address in its upcoming strategy paper, Alison Goddard considers the case for top-up and differential fees. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's...
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Germany joins battle for Nobels
The THES examines how countries are turning brain drain into brain gain. The cosmopolitan US is proving a hard act for Germany to follow, Jennie Brookman writes. The German scientific community was...