Wilson defends Garrick rejection
Gerald Wilson, secretary of the Scottish Office education and industry department, has defended the government's decision to turn down the Garrick Committee's call for a chief scientific adviser for...
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Euro chiefs fear erosion of role
The traditional position of European universities is under threat, university chiefs have been warned. Universities have lost their monopoly on teaching and research, with global corporations now...
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Left professors seize chance to overturn Jurassic economy
Left-of-centre professors and academicians are seizing their first chance in nearly a decade to propose radical solutions to Russia's economic ills. Former dissidents, social democrats and reformist...
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The CIA's role in Animal Farm
The impact of the cold war and the shady role of the United States's Central Intelligence Agency in the production of Animal Farm, Britain's first feature-length animated film, was discussed by...
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'Closed' centre launches new MSc
A postgraduate centre, effectively closed by Edinburgh University in 1996, has launched the first MSc course of the third millennium, a stone's-throw from its former premises. The Centre for Human...
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Big demand for English lessons
STUDENTS in South Korea are learning more about the west as part of their country's Saegaewha, or "Greater Globalisation", programme. English language, western business and other international...
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Maintaining the New Order
The Indonesian Economy Since 1966
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Report of reflection meeting on future of COST within European Research Area, 28 January 2002
Brussels, 18 February 2002 Full text European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST. Secretariat. Summary of Conclusions of the meeting of the JAF Reflection Group held...
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Supremo in science plea
Sir William Stewart, former chief scientific adviser to the Cabinet Office, has called for a full-time Scottish chief scientific adviser "with clout" to ensure that science and technology north of...
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Charging up the engines of development
Northern Ireland's two universities suffer the region's twin disadvantages of political and economic difficulties. But, as Olga Wojtas and Noel McAdam report, their v-cs promise to transform them...
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Culture collections clubbed together
The Government has placed responsibility for the United Kingdom's numerous collections of cultures and micro-organisms in the hands of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The...
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Cheap food, poor policy
The BSE crisis showed that health has been the missing link in the food chain. Now, writes Tim Lang, it is time for the government to enshrine public wellbeing at the heart of an open policy-making...
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Scots get Pounds 7.5m to develop facilities
The reclamation of "brownfield" sites, the economics of renewable energy sources, high-tech materials for medical uses, and food hygiene and nutrition are among 17 projects backed by the Scottish...
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Estates of the nation
Universities are hatching ambitious plans involving property disposals, relocations, new buildings and higher usage. Gordon Hood reports The 1990s have seen some of the most dynamic shifts to...
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Globalisation and after
The Cultural Crisis of the Firm - Pattern in Corporate Evolution