Expert witnesses: case for the prosecution
Cases such as those of Angela Cannings and Sally Clark have thrown a spotlight on the role of expert witnesses. John Hemming calls for an overhaul of a system that can lead not only to injustice but...
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Business Plan Competition
Deadline: 14/09/2006
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ERANet Bioenergy - Gasification
Deadline: 06/09/2007
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The certainty principle
Nonplussed! Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas - The Pythagorean Theorem
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The value of barefoot life
The Earth Only Endures
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Sublime sights to behold
Only a Promise of Happiness - Vanities of the Eye
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A flawed model of production
The Making of an Economist Redux
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Isn’t it iconic? Maybe not…
Ads to Icons
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A particularly rich theoretical vein
An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
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What are the chances of that?
The Black Swan
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First Impressions
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by an autodidact, polyglot and accomplished musician: “You must and will suppose (fair or foul...
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The £80bn question
Can universities equip 21st-century workers with critical thinking and industry-specific skills? Success will bring huge rewards but the challenges are great, says Chloe Stothart In December 2006,...
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Latitude to develop along the meridian
Greenwich tailored a new engineering course and resurrected an old one with a collaborative hand from industry Greenwich University has a good record of working with employers to design courses that...
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Collaboration for a successful delivery
An NHS trust led the development of a foundation degree that helps local women into a new healthcare role Working with employers can help crack one of the sector’s most intractable problems —...
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Talking their way into a job in Malaysia
One IT institute’s dialogue with industry helps guarantee work for its graduates In a business park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, employers are beating down the door of a university to get their hands...