V-cs: London costs a deterrent
Vice-chancellors at London universities have told London mayor Ken Livingstone that exorbitant housing costs and a failing transport system are threatening the future of their institutions. The...
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Top-flight cooperation
Airbus Industrie
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Centre sets sights on tycoons of future
The Southampton Institute's business school has used government funding to regroup its small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship work into a new centre to act as a focus for small...
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Henry V leads businessmen unto the breach
A CEO in search of excellence should avoid the insipid management books in airport bookstores and turn to Shakespeare - so Richard Olivier believes. Huw Richards reports. " We few, we happy few, we...
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Bosses take token line on training
Employers are tokenistic about lifelong learning and are turning the idea of "employability" into little more than a "hackneyed catchphrase", according to an Institute of Employment Studies report....
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Currency before exchange
UK universities prefer fee-paying students to European ones. Anne Corbett laments our policy on mobility. Is it an idea whose time has come - that British students catch up with their continental...
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Commissioner Philippe Busquin welcomes Prime Ministers Blair and Kok's call for increased business investment in R&D
Brussels, 21 February 2002 In a letter to Jos¨¦ Maria Aznar, President of the European Council, Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Wim Kok have called for determined action by the EU and its Member States...
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What works in the work place?
Theory of Employment Systems
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Reflection on a future eEurope Action Plan proposed by the Spanish Presidency of the EU
Brussels, 15 February 2002 This questionnaire has been sent to the ministers of Science and Technology that will attend the informal meeting in Vitoria, Spain (22/02/2002) 15/02/2002 QUESTIONNAIRE...
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Man is messing up the climate so let's act now
Floods are proof enough that the UK must respond to its change in weather, says Merylyn McKenzie Hedger. At a recent forum on the south coast, the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP) and others...
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Staring into space
European leaders want to integrate public space efforts into other activities. Jane Marshall reports. Space is no longer a separate entity, and space exploration must be fused with other activities...
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The EU has a key role to play in space, says Growth programme Director
Brussels, 26 February 2002 Knowledge, market exploitation and influence are the three reasons why the EU must now have a space policy, Jack Metthey, the recently appointed Director for the '...
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If we're different, it's for the same reason
In our series on the Big Science Questions, Aisling Irwin looks at the evidence for differences between the sexes beyond the basic mechanics of reproduction. "Why can't a woman be more like a man?"...
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Question and Answers on the regulation of GMOs in the EU
Brussels, 15 October 2002 This questions and answers fact sheet is divided into two sections; Part A covers legislation in force; Part B covers the legislative proposals on tracability and labelling...
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Analysis: UK outspins rivals in US
A revolution in attitudes to science and its funding has led to a new era of growth in entrepreneurial zeal in British universities. Steve Farrar and Caroline Davis report Two years ago, John...