How Blair can remedy the right state we're in
Labour must modernise industry and back regional growth if it is not once again to preside over a slump, argues Colin Hay. Now that Labour has won the election, the debate over the party's self-...
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How to develop a world of problems
Poverty and Development into the 21st Century. Second Edition
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Analysis: So what are you good at?
UK universities have great brand names and are good at research but not much else, a conference heard. Alison Goddard reports Universities and colleges should play to their strengths and stop trying...
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EPSRC: keeping science healthy
'There should be some failure. It means you are learning more,' Richard Brook tells Natasha Loder. As chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the United Kingdom's...
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A reason to play to strengths
Diversity will thrive if universities are given the money to do what they are best at, argue Richard Brown and Gareth Williams The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England admitted in a recent...
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Key skills are a capitalist issue
UNIVERSITIES will never be able to define and assess a set of "key skills" acceptable to industry, an Institute of Education report will warn later this month, writes Phil Baty. The report's author,...
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V-cs plan body to lift standards
David Jobbins and Philip Fine report on the Association of Commonwealth Universities meeting in Ottawa. Commonwealth vice-chancellors have approved in principle a plan for a Commonwealth...
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Chairs
University College of St Martin, Lancaster The following have been appointed to chairs: Colin Richards, former visiting professor at the University of Newcastle and HMI for Ofsted; Mike Walsh, former...
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Labour relations
Science, innovation and technology are central to Labour's industrial strategy for improving Britain's competitiveness. Policies in the Business Prospectus, announced on Wednesday by Tony Blair,...
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A bewildered tribe
As The THES turns 30, Simon Jenkins and Tariq Ali review three turbulent decades within and without academia. After Margaret Thatcher lost power in 1990, her most revealing reflection was over her...
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A woman on the edge of a nuclear precipice
Veteran nuclear campaigner Helen Caldicott says a belligerent, ill-informed US president controlled by staff wanting ever-more exotic weapons has raised the risk of nuclear war to a post-cold war...
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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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Summary of delegations' comments on the proposed directive on the promotion of cogeneration based on a useful heat demand in the internal energy market
Brussels, 17 Dec 2002 Full text of Document 15321/02 prev. doc. 13987/02 ENER 253 ENV 646 CODEC 1396 No. Cion prop.: 11381/02 ENER 167 ENV 433 CODEC 975 (COM (2002) 415 final) Subject: Proposal for a...
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Funding revamp shifts focus of science
Sweden is restructuring its research network to focus on innovation. Michael de Laine reports on the changes and on the country's key role in arctic studies. A bill to revamp Swedish research funding...
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OECD sparks hike in research
Denmark has announced a new national research strategy in an attempt to meet criticism from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development three years ago. Jytte Hilden, research minister...