Research top of political agenda
PM Howard puts knowledge economy centre stage in green paper. University research and research training are issues flying high on ߣߣÊÓƵ's political agenda. More than a decade after the last...
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Cash is lavished on RAE giants
Key points Extra £1.25 billion for research by 2005-06 Research to be concentrated in top universities New RAE rating for top research departments PhD funding criteria to encourage concentration...
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Who supports Man. united?
Alison Utley reports on plans for a super-university and a refashioned Northumbria. Britain's first super-university came a step closer this week as the University of Manchester and the University of...
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Uniting a nation with bridge and brochure
Bosnia is not an obvious holiday destination, but Chris Bunting reports on a scheme that aims to use tourism to heal the country's ethnic rifts. On the morning of November 9 1993, a tank shell...
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Bath loses research cash as Warwick poaches staff
The University of Warwick's business school has poached seven top researchers from Bath University, and in doing so has prevented Bath from claiming credit for any work completed by the team - headed...
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No profit in conflict
Vice-chancellors must steer clear of personal commercial involvement, argues Gillian Evans When you become vice-chancellor of a high-profile university that has announced that it wants to build links...
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'This university has to be led by academics'
Malcolm Grant University College London The walls of the cavernous rooms of the provost of University College London have been re-papered but otherwise remain bare. Malcolm Grant, the new incumbent,...
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Report of November meeting of Scientific and Technical Research Committee
Draft summary conclusions of the 280th meeting of the Scientific and Technical Research Committee (CREST), held in Brussels on 22 and 23 November 2001. Note to CREST delegations. Brussels, 21...
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Universities pull out of national pay board
Industrial relations are in the balance following the withdrawal of five of ߣߣÊÓƵ's biggest universities from their national negotiating arm and the resignation of its chief executive, Russell...
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UK lags in green research
The United Kingdom has the lowest expenditure per capita on environmental research and development of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries, MPs were told this week....
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Business won't boom in ghetto
A free-standing research council will stifle management studies, argues Anthony Hopwood. From time to time, there is pressure to create an independent Research Council for Management Research. The...
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Read between the lines for a lesson in consumer coercion
Harry Potter may be one step ahead of the evil Voldemort, but the marketeers had his number long ago, warns June Cummins. "How do you achieve global commercial domination and not lose your soul?" -...
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For the record
Lecturers protest at further redundancies Lecturers at Middlesex University lobbied its board of governors this week in protest at restructuring and redundancy. Members of lecturers' union Natfhe are...
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Today's news
Businesses set to determine college courses Businesses are to be given a central role in determining what courses are offered by further education colleges, the government announced yesterday....
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'Enterprise must be valued and fostered'
University enterprise is being stifled by more teaching duties, growing administrative tasks and the pursuit of high research ratings, a report will say. The European Commission-funded report, due to...