Cheap food, poor policy
The BSE crisis showed that health has been the missing link in the food chain. Now, writes Tim Lang, it is time for the government to enshrine public wellbeing at the heart of an open policy-making...
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Several steps ahead for the union dues
I WILL always remember the morning that Leon Brittan resigned from the Cabinet over the Westland affair. It was a marvellous occasion ripe with drama and intrigue. The great, the good and the bag...
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Kingston's Pounds 1m media future
Greg Dyke, Pearson Television's chief executive, launched Kingston University's Pounds 1 million digital media centre this week with a prediction of massive growth and booming job prospects in the...
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Breaths of fresh air
As Oxford's latest spin-off seals a deal to exploit asthma research, Kam Patel looks at what business incubation units can do Asthma researchers at Oxford University have entered a deal with...
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How to get a job in science policy
Tired of doing research? Why not switch camps and helpdecide who gets the vital funding In universities all over the country, one of the great topics of common-room conversation is the allocation of...
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Isn't it about time Labour abolished the TECs?
Unaccountable, overburdened, outdated -TECs have had their day, writes Julian Gravatt Training and enterprise councils are an idea whose time has gone, and they should be abolished. An innovation of...
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New learning and teaching body set to reward excellence
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines EXCELLENCE in teaching is to be rewarded through a new strategy announced by the Higher Education...
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Glittering prizes
Nancy Rothwell will be the 169th presenter of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this month. Anthony King, 64, professor in the department of government at Essex University, has been invited to...
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Britannia tries to rule the brain waves
Britain is making renewed efforts to sell its further and higher education "products" in up to 30 expanding export markets where competition is fierce. The Department of Trade and Industry and the...
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Out for the count
The situation in my department following a recent meeting on the upcoming research assessment exercise, due to be completed in December 2000, is a stark one. Apparently, no funding will come forth...
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Genome Valley lessons
A British mission finds much to learn from the United States bioindustry. Kam Patel reports. Functional genomics is the new buzzword in the biotechnology industry in the United States. But if it is...
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Why Tasmanian hens have two husbands
Survival Strategies
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Master of destiny
TO BRITISH-born Marc Sharpe there was a dynamism and a drive about United States businesses that he had never experienced in this country. It spurred him to save to study for an MBA at Harvard...
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Sons of soil left to wither on the vine
Agriculture in Britain has sunk to a nadir last seen during the Great Depression. Farmers were once the bedrock of British society and a powerful voice in the land, but who now cares what becomes of...
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Radical change warning
THE government is determined to "modernise and refocus" the higher education establishment, a conference on lifelong learning was told this week. "If the government can sweep to power and change the...