How to... design mix 'n' match courses
WHAT Ronald Barnett, Kelly Coate and Gareth Parry make sense of study programmes. WHY Curriculum planning is a complicated, yet necessary part of improving degree quality. HOW The undergraduate...
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When you're old, who cares how you die?
Doctors' failure to recognise that her mother was suffering from CJD alerted Judith Okely to the medical profession's inherent ageism. The crisis over mad cow disease has shown how scientific...
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Blair's 'feeble' dream
TONY BLAIR's dream for a truly learning society is based on "incomplete, one-sided and feeble theory", says one of the UK's leading educationalists. Frank Coffield, who delivered the King's College...
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For the record
Minister hits back at AS level flop claims Education minister Baroness Blackstone has hit back at claims that the new advanced subsidiary qualification is a flop with universities, schools and...
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How to develop a world of problems
Poverty and Development into the 21st Century. Second Edition
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Size does matter in computer future
Liverpool scientists unveil nanoscale electronic components that build themselves. The electronics industry underwent a fundamental change with the invention of the transistor, paving the way for the...
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Universities urged to put the future first
Universities need to focus on the future instead of just funding if they are to keep in touch with the business world, the National Advisory Committee for Creative and Cultural Education reported...
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Northwest rises to the challenge
A group of universities is leading the drive to be at the centre of wealth creation. Kam Patel reports. The government's push to make universities more entrepreneurial should be allied to a...
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Cutting edge
David Wield Director of the Centre for Technology Strategy and chair of the development policy and practice group at the Open University If biotechnology innovators want to be successful, they should...
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Trial Aids vaccine works on monkeys
In our focus on Italian research, Paul Bompard reports on new efforts to shake up an unequal and underfunded system. Below, he looks at the agonies and the ecstasies of medical researchers The...
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Queen's Birthday honours
Knights. Anthony Atkinson, warden of Nuffield College, University of Oxford, for services to economics; Roderick MacSween, former president of the Royal College of Pathologists and chairman of the...
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Pots of gold at the end of regional rainbows
Rich rewards are waiting for higher education institutions that plug into industry and play their part fully in regional development, says Richard Brown Involving higher education more in local...
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Joining up for the genome
If Genome Valley is to ever become a reality, academia, industry and government must form a coherent strategy, say George Poste and Robin Fears A recent THES editorial (January 15) focused on the...
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Digging the dirt on coal conflict
Strikes and Solidarity