Cuts threaten bacteria fight
Scientists at the United Kingdom's leading food research establishment have warned that Government cuts in funding threaten their future ability to respond to crisis such as the recent outbreak of E....
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Springboks pick up research pace
Spurred by the government, R&D in South Africa is booming, reports Karen MacGregor from Durban South Africans glorify their sporting abilities but otherwise tend to be deeply self-deprecating....
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Bonnie fechters
A Future for Scottish Higher Education
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A man with the world at his web feat
Ayala Ochert meets fast-talking WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee. For as long as Tim Berners-Lee can remember, computers have been a natural part of life. His parents met while working on the world's...
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Why it pays to be global
The Evolution of International Business
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Tories need a vision to stay on Earth
ASÉ«ºÐÖ±²¥Y gathered in Blackpool this week, the Tories resembled nothing so much as Mir - an ageing, crumbling listed building in outer space without a working guidance system, from which bits...
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Can spin-outs reap returns?
Having a stake in a Pounds 150 million firm might sound pretty appealing to the average academic, but the path to the successful spin-out can be strewn with obstacles. Martin Ince reports Academics...
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Industrialists and academics envisage licence for skill
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
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Europe looks to student market
British vice chancellors and principals are much more optimistic than their continental peers that student numbers will grow beyond the year 2000, a pan-European survey has found. Out of 30...
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Catastrophe converter
How can the insurance industry's record losses from natural disasters in recent years be reduced? Howard Kunreuther has some solutions The insurance industry is gravely concerned that it cannot...
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China looks to the 21st century
The Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's top scientific body, is to tweak its research strategy to focus more directly on economic development under its next Five Year Plan (1996-2000). The...
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Cuts fuel campus disputes
Cuts and restructuring are causing upheaval in universities countrywide. Thes reporters look at four hotspots. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON BAILIFFS evicted 35 students on Tuesday from buildings at the...
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BAe set for virtual take-off
A prospectus for British Aerospace's "virtual university" should emerge in the late spring and the venture is on schedule for launch late this year, says its vice-chancellor Geraldine Kenney-Wallace...
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Parties go to battle on skills
The Tories launched their white paper Learning to Compete this week to Labour cries that they stole its ideas. É«ºÐÖ±²¥ POLITICAL battle for the educational high ground stepped up a gear this week as the...
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Could these nightmares ever happen to you?
University of Armageddon Over-enthusiastic recruitment has swollen Armageddon's new intake. Administrative strategy last year was directed at slimming the salary bill to release funds for new...