Worn tyres are set for profitable rerun
A Leeds academic has developed a new method of tyre disposal that could add millions of pounds in value to the rubber mountains dotted across the globe. Paul Williams, senior lecturer in the...
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Reopen the book - bacteria are back
Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus
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Centre sets sights on tycoons of future
The Southampton Institute's business school has used government funding to regroup its small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship work into a new centre to act as a focus for small...
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Queen's birthday honours
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Martyn Arbib, president of Perpetual plc, for services to charities, especially education. John Baker, QC, Downing professor of the laws of England, University of Cambridge, for...
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Question and Answers on the regulation of GMOs in the EU (link)
Brussels, 28 January 2004 What are GMOs and GMMs? Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMs) can be defined as organisms (and micro-organisms) in which the...
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Question and Answers on the regulation of GMOs in the EU (link)
Brussels, 28 January 2004 What are GMOs and GMMs? Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and genetically modified micro-organisms (GMMs) can be defined as organisms (and micro-organisms) in which the...
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Snaring webbed punters
Internet Marketing. Third edition - Internet Marketing. First edition
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Fighter refused to play Hollywood's shame game
A Very Dangerous Citizen
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Check emails, fix up meeting with councillors, buy Kit Kat
Just what do vice-chancellors do all day? Harriet Swain joins Michael Brown of Liverpool John Moores University to find out, in the first in a series on the working lives of people in higher...
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Scots seek views on research cash
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council wants to know how its mainstream research funding method could be improved to help offer greater job security to more contract research staff. Shefc is...
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FE enrolments to double, says funding council
Funding chiefs claimed this week that further education will soon be back on target for recruiting more students, writes Tony Tysome. This is despite numbers falling for two consecutive years. The...
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Yale academic seeks no-strike lecture pledge
The bestselling British author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers has stepped into a dispute between Yale University and its graduate teaching assistants by laying down conditions under which...
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The European Research Area, towards 3% of EU GDP (Extracted from Council/Commission press releases on the Competitiveness Council of 26 November)
Brussels, th November 2002 The Council held an exchange of views, based on the Commission's communication, " The European Research Area: Providing new momentum - Strengthening, reorienting, opening...
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Worldbeaters 'pool resources'
Universities should become more like private sector companies, axeing weaker courses and focusing on their strengths, vice-chancellors are to be told. To compete successfully in increasingly...
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News in brief
V-cs shun 'Mickey Mouse' and elite tag Vice-chancellors have hit back at claims that universities are purveyors of "Mickey Mouse" degrees and elitism. Universities UK launched its Employability and...