Springboks pick up research pace
Spurred by the government, R&D in South Africa is booming, reports Karen MacGregor from Durban South Africans glorify their sporting abilities but otherwise tend to be deeply self-deprecating....
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A man with the world at his web feat
Ayala Ochert meets fast-talking WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee. For as long as Tim Berners-Lee can remember, computers have been a natural part of life. His parents met while working on the world's...
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The long march to capitalism
Growing out of the Plan
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Bonnie fechters
A Future for Scottish Higher Education
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Cuts threaten bacteria fight
Scientists at the United Kingdom's leading food research establishment have warned that Government cuts in funding threaten their future ability to respond to crisis such as the recent outbreak of E....
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Shephard rounds on CBI
Top business leaders were lambasted by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, this week for failing to give a clear signal about what employers want from the higher...
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Can spin-outs reap returns?
Having a stake in a Pounds 150 million firm might sound pretty appealing to the average academic, but the path to the successful spin-out can be strewn with obstacles. Martin Ince reports Academics...
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Why it pays to be global
The Evolution of International Business
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Catastrophe converter
How can the insurance industry's record losses from natural disasters in recent years be reduced? Howard Kunreuther has some solutions The insurance industry is gravely concerned that it cannot...
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Industrialists and academics envisage licence for skill
The Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise have been bringing together academics and industrialists in a bid to capitalise on Scotland's scientific research, writes Olga Wojtas. Their...
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Europe looks to student market
British vice chancellors and principals are much more optimistic than their continental peers that student numbers will grow beyond the year 2000, a pan-European survey has found. Out of 30...
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Tories need a vision to stay on Earth
ASTHEY gathered in Blackpool this week, the Tories resembled nothing so much as Mir - an ageing, crumbling listed building in outer space without a working guidance system, from which bits...
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Cuts fuel campus disputes
Cuts and restructuring are causing upheaval in universities countrywide. Thes reporters look at four hotspots. UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON BAILIFFS evicted 35 students on Tuesday from buildings at the...
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Millennium magic
This week the government published its plans for lifelong learning and its responses to both the Kennedy and the Dearing reports. Below, The THES examines reaction to the first two, while on the...
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Courses for menu-driven TV
To keep pace with a fragmented and revolutionised TV industry, training must innovate and not imitate, argues David Plowright. For the first 40 years of its life, broadcasting was valued more as a...