Researchers aim for greener cities
The explosion in the number of people living in cities is damaging the environment. At a recent meeting of the Natural Environment Research Council's atmospheric science community, scientists tabled...
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Call for central control
A central planning agency is urgently required to make higher education meet the needs of a modern learning society, ministers have been told. The agency should preside over funding incentives and...
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Accidental focus on Britain
Accident and Design
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Mexico signs training deal
John Major has signed up to an agreement with Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo which could spark a business bonanza for the burgeoning British training industry. Mexico has been given $265 million...
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Grants
THE QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST Research contracts Dr S Thompson, Pounds 169,775 from the Department of Economic Development (industrial research and technology unit, science and technology...
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DFEE cuts top posts
Tony Tysome reports on the shake-up of senior civil servants at the Department For Education and Employment. Gillian Shephard's "dream come true" - the Department For Education and Employment -...
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Privatisers on parade
Privatisation And Economic Performance
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this...
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Food feuds: a safety issue to chew over
Tim Lang, Erik Millstone and Mike Rayner send a memo to the prime minister on why international experience suggests he should set up a new food agency. Now the general election has passed, the new...
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Britain's lone plea to cut ESA spending
British officials will next week call on the European Space Agency to slash its Pounds 0 million annual budget by 25 per cent over a five-year period. At a meeting of space ministers from ESA member...
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Commercial propositions
REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Is genetic modification of crops the hope for the future or a sure-fire route to bankruptcy? The issue was debated at this week's...
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Green piece of the action
Vitality and Renewal
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Sinister surveillance
Sophisticated Gulf War technology is finding its way on to the high streets of Britain as electronic surveillance moves into a new and sinister era driven by powerful commercial interests. At a...
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Gene havoc, plant form
Reaching for the Sun - The Evolutionary Biology of Plants - The Nature of Disease in Plants
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View from the Fens Windows
Roger Needham is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge millions. Tony Durham asks how he will spend them Microsoft is not the first computing...