'Militants' rally to save jobs
A "new militancy" has taken root in higher education as up to 1,000 academic jobs face the axe in new universities. Support staff are to join academics' industrial action and there...
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The EU has a key role to play in space, says Growth programme Director
Brussels, 26 February 2002 Knowledge, market exploitation and influence are the three reasons why the EU must now have a space policy, Jack Metthey, the recently appointed Director for the '...
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A holy case of divide and rule
The European Family
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Colleges let their IT slip
COLLEGES are failing to embrace information technology, according to a report published this week by the Further Education Funding Council. The report, which is being seen as a warning to ministers...
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On the move
Members of the Foundation Degree Design Group, which was announced by Education Secretary David Blunkett last month are: Paul Cohen, divisional manager, and Leigh Hackel, team leader, Higher...
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Eye witness
Post-apartheid South Africa continues to face serious economic and social problems as it rebuilds its divided society. The gap between expectations among the non-white communities and the reality of...
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Analysis: You've got to be loud and proud
In an era of increased competition, image is everything and the university that rests on its laurels is destined to lose out. Alison Utley reports. Image is all in the modern university. Parents,...
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Mr Erkki Liikanen: "GÉANT - the benefits of Europe's Broadband Research Network", Global Research Network Summit and GÉANT Commissioning event, Brussels, 22 May 2002
Brussels, 22 May 2002 Ladies and gentlemen, It gives me particular pleasure to close this event, and to send you away from here with a sense of the immense contribution that GÉANT - and research...
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For the record
IT is the student's favourite A quarter of undergraduates want to work in IT or the internet - but less than 1 per cent want a career in education. When website ukplacements.com asked 10,000 students...
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Scottish jobs spring
A new strategy bringing academics and industrialists together to commercialise Scottish research in science and technology could create at least another 11,000 jobs over the next ten years. This...
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Consuming ecological passions
Journal of Industrial Ecology
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(Full Report) Preparations for the Health Council in Luxembourg on 26 June
Brussels, 25 June 2002 (Thorsten Münch, Per Haugaard) Commissioners David Byrne, responsible for Health and Consumer Protection, and Erkki Liikanen, responsible for Enterprise and Information Society...
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Re-routing world water ways
The global management of water must be rethought, a new report urges. Wendy Barnaby reports. If politics is the art of the possible, this document is a work of art." The first words used by Kadar...
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Breaths of fresh air
As Oxford's latest spin-off seals a deal to exploit asthma research, Kam Patel looks at what business incubation units can do Asthma researchers at Oxford University have entered a deal with...
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If we're different, it's for the same reason
In our series on the Big Science Questions, Aisling Irwin looks at the evidence for differences between the sexes beyond the basic mechanics of reproduction. "Why can't a woman be more like a man?"...