The frosty welcome is part of the package
A group of glaciologists has escaped the British weather for somewhere... colder. In the fourth article on what researchers do in the summer, Bryn Hubbard reports from the Arctic island of...
Search
-
-
Avoid logging on to despair
A sceptical Dorothy Zinberg faces the dark side of internet euphoria and urges a little cyber restraint. Long before the Nasdaq's unexpected 50 per cent plunge almost a year ago, I had begun to...
-
Advice for the age of e-verything
Global Electronic Commerce - e-Enterprise - The Business of e-Commerce
-
Isn't it about time Labour abolished the TECs?
Unaccountable, overburdened, outdated -TECs have had their day, writes Julian Gravatt Training and enterprise councils are an idea whose time has gone, and they should be abolished. An innovation of...
-
Labour pledge on research units
Hopes that a Labour government would rescue the Office of Science and Technology from the Department of Trade and Industry were diminished yesterday when Labour said that it would only "review" the...
-
Digging the dirt on coal conflict
Strikes and Solidarity
-
Report opposed by academics
A group of 1,400 Canadian academics have put their name to a letter that urges prime minister Jean Chretien to reject a report on university commercialisation. The Canadian Association of University...
-
Commissioner Philippe Busquin welcomes Prime Ministers Blair and Kok's call for increased business investment in R&D
Brussels, 21 February 2002 In a letter to José Maria Aznar, President of the European Council, Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Wim Kok have called for determined action by the EU and its Member States...
-
Darwin for true believers
The Dynamic Society Exploring The Sources of Global Change
-
Elite logs out of e-university
A complete rethink of the government's proposed e-university risks repeating the problems of the University for Industry. Plans for an elite core of institutions to lead the project - unveiled as...
-
Barred of Avon
Were Dermot Sheils and John Holland sacked by Stratford-upon-Avon College because they are disabled? Staff at the college and both men's trade unions fear so. Mr Sheils's and Mr Holland's employment...
-
How to get a job in science policy
Tired of doing research? Why not switch camps and helpdecide who gets the vital funding In universities all over the country, one of the great topics of common-room conversation is the allocation of...
-
Cutting edge
David Wield Director of the Centre for Technology Strategy and chair of the development policy and practice group at the Open University If biotechnology innovators want to be successful, they should...
-
Henry V leads businessmen unto the breach
A CEO in search of excellence should avoid the insipid management books in airport bookstores and turn to Shakespeare - so Richard Olivier believes. Huw Richards reports. " We few, we happy few, we...
-
Commission Communication: Civil protection - Progress made in implementing the programme for preparedness for possible emergencies
Brussels, 14 June 2002 COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL AND THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Civil protection - Progress made in implementing the programme for preparedness for possible...