A real screen saver
Chris Duckenfield describes how his university is bucking the UStrend of making cash-strapped students invest in laptops College costs in the United States are high, and plenty of people like it that...
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'Hang on to your HNDs'
It has been described by ministers as "a new qualification for a new century" that will "strengthen the links between higher education and the world of work"....
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Don's Diary
Sunday Personal administration has piled up in six months of trying to cope with two jobs. I am a senior lecturer in rail systems engineering at Sheffield University but have been seconded to the...
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Historian is given Scots brief
Scotland's new education minister is Raymond Robertson, MP for Aberdeen South and a former teacher of history and modern studies. Given the dearth of Scottish Tory MPs, he is also responsible for...
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Arts of gold
The National Lottery has prompted an unprecedented expansion of a cultural sector that already employs almost twice as many people as the motor industry. Sara Selwood reports. The notion of culture...
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Spectres at the feast of reform and renewal
China's Provinces in Reform
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Enter through Real Life, exit in Nude
When the Tate Modern opens in May, will visitors like the radical grouping of art into 'Nude' or 'Object', or simply get lost looking for the masterpieces? asks Karl Sabbagh. Right, the academics'...
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Final harvest at Long Ashton
Why might a research station that has won annual grants of Pounds 5m be closed? Natasha Loder reports Earlier this summer a quiet catastrophe unfolded in the village of Long Ashton, on the outskirts...
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Grants
London Business School. Research contracts Dr D. Robertson and P. Morrison, Pounds 249,989 from ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England (fund for development of teaching and learning: a model...
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CBI calls for 'skills passport' boost
Business leaders are backing the idea of a "skills passport" to boost the flagging skills revolution. In a new report, Realising the Vision: A Skills Passport, the Confederation of British Industry...
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A dirtier shade of green
Earth in the Balance - Al Gore
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Business elite head abroad
Gerard Valin has the task of steering France's top business school in an increasingly multinational direction into the new century. He arrived as the new director-general of Groupe ESSEC in January...
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Guiding cleverness
The Management of Expertise
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Harvard pioneer of digital frontiers
Makin' Numbers - Howard Aiken
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Labour stakes claim in training for life
Labour is planning a two-pronged strategy to improve the quality of training and learning at work. A leaked draft of their training document, which will be released "in the near future" shows the...