MM 2001: War without risk
Modern warfare can be a 'political entertainment' in which little is chanced, or a hell where civilians, not armies, are targeted. Mary Kaldor explains The 18th and 19th centuries were periods of...
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Supremo in science plea
Sir William Stewart, former chief scientific adviser to the Cabinet Office, has called for a full-time Scottish chief scientific adviser "with clout" to ensure that science and technology north of...
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Left professors seize chance to overturn Jurassic economy
Left-of-centre professors and academicians are seizing their first chance in nearly a decade to propose radical solutions to Russia's economic ills. Former dissidents, social democrats and reformist...
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Big demand for English lessons
STUDENTS in South Korea are learning more about the west as part of their country's Saegaewha, or "Greater Globalisation", programme. English language, western business and other international...
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Culture collections clubbed together
The Government has placed responsibility for the United Kingdom's numerous collections of cultures and micro-organisms in the hands of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The...
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'Closed' centre launches new MSc
A postgraduate centre, effectively closed by Edinburgh University in 1996, has launched the first MSc course of the third millennium, a stone's-throw from its former premises. The Centre for Human...
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Charging up the engines of development
Northern Ireland's two universities suffer the region's twin disadvantages of political and economic difficulties. But, as Olga Wojtas and Noel McAdam report, their v-cs promise to transform them...
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Analysis: Mixed report for class of '92
Ten years on from the end of binary divide in higher education, Claire Sanders assesses the successes and failures of new universities in a united sector Ten years ago Liverpool Polytechnic declined...
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Scots get Pounds 7.5m to develop facilities
The reclamation of "brownfield" sites, the economics of renewable energy sources, high-tech materials for medical uses, and food hygiene and nutrition are among 17 projects backed by the Scottish...
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Estates of the nation
Universities are hatching ambitious plans involving property disposals, relocations, new buildings and higher usage. Gordon Hood reports The 1990s have seen some of the most dynamic shifts to...
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Globalisation and after
The Cultural Crisis of the Firm - Pattern in Corporate Evolution
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Misplaced pressure
Rebel scientist Terence Kealey's failure to win over a well-informed audience at a debate this week in London (page 44) by arguing that government funding of science does more harm than good (and...
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South Africa boosts its science
Africa. South African industries and the government could soon be pumping half a billion rand (Pounds 66,500,000) a year into science and technology projects aimed at rapidly expanding the country's...
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Realising the dream
Human nature being what it is, we may live in a new world but we react in ways shaped by an old one. New visions may inspire but getting there is hard. So found Harold Wilson 30 years ago as his...
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OU project shows how 'Cezanne' knits together
How a concept such as "Cezanne" is transformed into a knitting pattern is the subject of a project just launched by the Open University. Researchers aim to find out where designers get their...