Glittering prizes
Heather Rabbatts, chief executive of Lambeth Council; Michael Green, chairman of Carlton; and Richard Chartres, Bishop of London, have received honorary degrees from City University. Lord Bagri,...
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Eco-unfriendly
Umberto Eco, Italy's favourite intellectual, has been taken to task in the media over an article he wrote in Corriere Della Sera on biotechnology patents. Gilberto Corbellini, a distinguished writer...
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Don't trip on the red tape
Universities' obsession with safety is ridiculous and time-wasting, argues John Adams What do Routemaster buses, the Serpentine swimming club and university field trips have in common? They are all...
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Stop telling tales
Double-blind refereeing should eliminate discrimination of most kinds. Other walks of life are not as fortunate. Andrew Oswald Professor of economics University of Warwick
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... David Robertson asked how governance can be better regulated. Ron Hill Director of Corporate Affairs and Clerk to the Calderdale Colleges Corporation Halifax The views...
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Sources for research funding
THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH BOARD (AHRB) www.ahrb.ac.uk The AHRB has launched a scheme to support research in the creative and performing arts. In addition to expanding research activity in...
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US fury over data access legislation
American scientists are opposing a law that forces openness in federally funded research. Ayala Ochert reports Scientists in the United States are up in arms over an obscure piece of legislation...
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Don't listen to the teacher
Think of an engineer and what springs to mind? A graduate doing a white-collar job or the person who repairs dead vacuum cleaners? Most of the primary and secondary teachers questioned by researchers...
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New power generation
A lightweight electricity generator developed by Imperial College engineers is set torevolutionise industry. Kam Patel reports A company formed on the back of revolutionary lightweight electricity...
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Year of the dragon
Welsh centres of expertise are linking research innovators with businesses. Iola Smith reports on an initiative that is already attracting interest from abroad Europe lags behind the US and Japan in...
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Swansea success story
A Swansea success is Osprey Metals. It began 25 years ago when three of the university'smetallurgy students came up with anew way of forming metal. They found that by atomising molten metal into a...
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Ogilvie slams civil servants
The UK research councils are no longer respected by their customers, a leading medical researcher and former head of the Wellcome Trust told the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee this...
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Cash for commercial break
Loughborough University has been awarded Pounds 201,000 by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation to fund staff who wish to develop new technology for commercial use. The cash will be used to free them...
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Something's brewing
An agro-industrial bio-technology centre is to be set up in Esbjerg, on the west coast of Jutland, by the University of South Denmark and Aalborg University. Although the centre will carry out basic...
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Norway to be weighed up
Fundamental biological subjects such as bio-technology and bio-chemistry at Norway's universities, university colleges and research institutes are to be evaluated for the first time since 1988. Three...