Glittering prizes
Kate Storey , a principal investigator who runs a research group in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, has received a five-year senior non-clinical fellowship worth ?900,000...
Kate Storey , a principal investigator who runs a research group in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, has received a five-year senior non-clinical fellowship worth ?900,000...
Scottish higher education has won ?120 million in a series of funding boosts for research and commercialisation. Scotland's share of the Science Research Infrastructure Fund is ?45 million, but the...
Draft summary conclusions of the 280th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), held in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 2001. Note to CREST delegations. Brussels, 21...
The ideas of an 18th-century English clergyman have been used by two management scientists to forecast the success of new movies with unprecedented accuracy. Two American experts have turned to the...
Can distance learning help get South African higher education back on its feet, asks Richard Mawditt For nearly a decade following the African National Congress initiative, which set the parameters...
Brussels, 19 March 2002 In a drive to gear up research on genomics - the study of genes and their function - the European Commission has awarded €39.4 million to three large research projects. The...
Funding chiefs claimed this week that further education will soon be back on target for recruiting more students, writes Tony Tysome. This is despite numbers falling for two consecutive years. The...
A Cologne design course where no one tells students what to do is a teaching model. Pat Leon reports. Cologne Design School is still turning teaching upside down ten years after its creation. It was...
A free-standing research council will stifle management studies, argues Anthony Hopwood. From time to time, there is pressure to create an independent Research Council for Management Research. The...
Ethnic minorities find the UK film and TV industry shut to them, says Sara Wajid, but Geoff Watts reports on an experiment proving that racism is not hard wired. Stripped of its layers of ham,...
Industrial Crisis and the Open Economy
A row over the commercialisation of university research and academic freedom has erupted at the London School of Economics following the decision of a major research sponsor to prematurely pull the...
Harry Potter may be one step ahead of the evil Voldemort, but the marketeers had his number long ago, warns June Cummins. "How do you achieve global commercial domination and not lose your soul?" -...
In the US, national language competence is being fast-tracked post September11. But here, we're planning to let pupils drop foreign language learning at 14. This linguistic complacency is dangerous...
Globalisation has much to offer our society, argues Grazia Ietto-Gillies, but it requires responsible governance if we are to reverse the trends of third-world exploitation and environmental damage...