Bad news travelled too slowly
As civil servants face the BSE inquiry, Fred Pearce reports that experts learned of the disease informally (below) and hears a frustrated, ignored researcher (right) A sorry story of administrative...
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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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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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Conflicts at work in Bombay
The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India
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Lots of questions but too few answers
The shadow secretary for education and the Lib Dem spokesman on education respond to the green paper The Government publication of its green paper The Learning Age reminded me of the 1970s reggae hit...
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When tigers are trapped in the tank
India's Economic Reforms 1991-2001
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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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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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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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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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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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Spectres at the feast of reform and renewal
China's Provinces in Reform
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Grants
London Business School. Research contracts Dr D. Robertson and P. Morrison, Pounds 249,989 from Higher Education Funding Council for England (fund for development of teaching and learning: a model...
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A dirtier shade of green
Earth in the Balance - Al Gore