Glaxo gift will reopen property debate
A new laboratory at Bradford University funded by pharmaceutical giant Glaxo has reopened the debate over ownership of intellectual property rights in joint ventures between academics and industry....
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Wellcome guards its property
The Wellcome Trust plans to set up a technology transfer company to exploit intellectual property rights associated with research work it backs in universities. The idea was floated by the Wellcome...
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Forward into Battle over science funding policy
The Government's science policy is devoid of long-term thinking, lacking coordination between Government departments and has resulted in real terms reductions in funding, according to John Battle,...
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Union chief predicts recruitment crisis . . .
Old universities are likely to face a major recruitment crisis in the next four years because of a retirement bulge and poor academic pay, Peter Breeze, president of the Association of University...
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Ministers toy with private loans idea
The Government is considering piloting a privately-backed student loans scheme for postgraduates, which could eventually replace the current loans system. Ministers were this week examining the...
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Handsworth hits back at inspectors
Britain's most extensive college franchise operation has been heavily criticised by the Further Education Funding Council. But Handsworth College in Birmingham has hit back saying the inspection of...
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Role of women in the third world
(Photograph) - They borrow, they save, they invest and repay, they create wealth as well as families. Yet the role of women in the third world has been largely ignored by mainstream economics. Partha...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the first of Clio's followers: "'Soft countries,' he said, 'breed soft men. It is not the property of any one soil to produce fine fruits and good soldiers too.' The...
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Speaking Volumes: Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
Nicola Lacey on Luce Irigaray's Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche . I have spent far longer choosing the book for this column than writing the column itself. My initial enthusiasm for the project...
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Broad mind, best spirit
Academics at the artistic end of the higher education spectrum are facing a dilemma over how to respond to the multimedia revolution. They are trying to decide whether the whizzkids of new technology...
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Refashioning boys' toys
Christine Whitehouse on a project to re-connect girls to the computing universe on their own terms. Staffordshire University has played a large part in educating computer professionals, both men and...
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Access to a life-long college
North America is leading the way in providing a rich seam of electronic learning resources which can be tapped by communities which need them the most. Keith Yeomans reports from the US on the...
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Unproportional representation
The advent of the information age - and with it the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to profoundly alter political, social and economic relations - has been trumpeted since...
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Hot Wires
Cyber maths Mathematical documents, with "live" formulae and charts that recalculate when the reader types in new figures, can now be exchanged across the World Wide Web. Mathbrowser is a Web browser...
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Southampton switches to top
The University of Southampton is to go ahead with a high-speed campus multimedia network with the help of a Pounds 1 million system funded by IBM. The network, built around an IBM SP2 massively...