British struggle with innovation
Many British firms are struggling with what innovation means despite almost universal recognition that it is critical to making companies and nations more competitive, according to a newly published...
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Analysis: Why the smart cash is not so clever
The Russell Group has made all the right moves so far as the research assessment exercise is concerned, but its financial tactics may not make long-term business sense. Alison Goddard reports...
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Report of reflection meeting on future of COST within European Research Area, 28 January 2002
Brussels, 18 February 2002 Full text European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST. Secretariat. Summary of Conclusions of the meeting of the JAF Reflection Group held...
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Analysis: Arts and design put on a good RAE show
Creative subjects have started to focus on research. Caroline Davis reports. Funding chiefs have already revealed that half the staff returned in this year's research assessment exercise work in...
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If one sees an haitch, drop it
The New Elites
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The frosty welcome is part of the package
A group of glaciologists has escaped the British weather for somewhere... colder. In the fourth article on what researchers do in the summer, Bryn Hubbard reports from the Arctic island of...
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Ageing issues are not age old
Four research councils are getting together to meet the complex challenge posed by a longer-living population. Terry Philpot reports. Whatever the challenges that will face practitioners and policy-...
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WHY I... agreed to go back to university - this time at Luton
Lembit Opik: Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomeryshire and a graduate of Bristol University. At the Sharp End airs at 7.30pm, 19 January on BBC2. Few people even know Luton has a university, never mind...
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Task force to review qualifications
Scotland's Knowledge Economy Task Force, set up by enterprise and lifelong learning minister Henry McLeish, is set to debate whether higher education should include inbuilt professional accreditation...
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The price of success
Although R&D is vital to the bottom line, many British companies seem still not to have got the message. Martin Ince reports Are British companies finally getting enthusiastic about spending...
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Netgazette
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS e-Learning Foundation Ray Moore , formerly at Birmingham Local Education Authority where he was programme manager for the city's learning project, has been appointed...
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No profit in conflict
Vice-chancellors must steer clear of personal commercial involvement, argues Gillian Evans When you become vice-chancellor of a high-profile university that has announced that it wants to build links...
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Blunkett hints at big RAE changes
Education secretary David Blunkett has hinted in a lecture to social scientists that he would like to see widespread changes to the research assessment exercise. Speaking at an event arranged by the...
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Viviane Reding: Entering the Information Age, "Club of three" conference, organised by the Bertelsmann Stiftung Berlin, 20 June 2002
Berlin, 20 June 2002 Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a great pleasure for me to be here today and to have the opportunity to speak about the challenges that Europe faces on this journey towards the...
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Coshep lauds value of Scottish research
Kymata, a spin-off company from Glasgow University, could ease the global communications traffic jam and bring down costs. Its work on planar optoelectronics has produced a system that can "funnel"...