Planet Earth calling Joe Public
Ragnar E. Lofstedt questions whether the Government's public awareness campaign to cut energy consumption for environmental reasons is hitting home. The UK is one of the few nations in Europe that is...
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Tomorrow's tonic or today's bitter pill?
Simon Targett discovers how, despite a recent dip in the share price of a major biotech firm, Britain's academic spin-off companies are still on to a good thing. Just three weeks ago the share price...
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The Korean connection
Foreign investment in manufacturing industry can have a huge pay-off for British universities and research if all sides are willing to build a partnership, Yong-Doo Cho argues. The Koreans are coming...
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The Pounds 5bn super agency
This week David Blunkett unveiled ministers' plans for a new post-16 education and training system. É«ºÐÖ±²¥S reporters analyse the details. The 80-page Learning to Succeed white paper sets out a...
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Scots step up a gear
Six higher education institutions in Edinburgh are pioneering a Scottish superhighway scheme which is in the forefront of academic telecommunications. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Napier University,...
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When the Net gets too hot for commerce to handle
Alistair Chalmers says Internet near meltdowns in the US and Australia offer lessons that the UK's academic network managers must learn Most readers of this piece will be familiar with Janet, the...
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Pundit becomes a prof
Phil Baty talks to Will Hutton, the Observer editor who has recently added an economics professorship to his portfolio. Will Hutton, editor of The Observer and veteran economics correspondent, has...
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Lost science jobs lead to standstill
The appointment of France's first scientific council, the Comite d'Orientation Strategique, to advise the government directly on research policy, was marked by 24-hour closures at four major...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Union mergers make sense for all staff
Higher education is at a crossroads and the need for cooperation between trade unions in higher education has never been more pressing. With unions spanning academic and related support staff, a...
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Gandhi's sartorial message
Clothing Matters
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Water and troubled oil
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate. Ragnar Lofstedt describes how the activists were able...
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Publish and be crammed
Hugh Willmott believes that under the guise of improving efficiency the research assessment exercise has produced a Kafkaesque nonsense of product degradation. "Well, I've already got my four (...
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Nye's neglected baby left in tiers
The National Health Service
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Hot air and global warming
Ragnar Lofstedt asks if grand environmental UN conclaves really achieve anything. Global warming is in the news again. Last month signatories to the United Nations convention on climate change came...