Patent or be damned
Scientists must patent their work faster if European biotechnology is to catch up with the United States, Sandy Thomas, a research fellow at Sussex University, will tell a Brussels meeting of...
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Pirelli's Pounds 5m lifeline
Pirelli, the Italian telecommunications giant, has come to the rescue of optical electronics research at Southampton University with Pounds 5 million invested over five years. Backing for the world...
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Book bonus
(Photograph) - Newcastle University library has received Pounds 8 million from the estate of Marjory Robinson, who owned an international bookselling business with her husband. Librarian Tom Graham...
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Glasgow powers up
Glasgow and Strathclyde universities have agreed to recognise each other as "preferred partners" in research. The universities have a combined annual research funding portfolio of Pounds 100 million...
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A war god at Oxford
American Indians are setting their sights on retrieving ancestral remains and artefacts overseas following their success in United States universities. Several tribes have negotiated the return of...
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How to get a job in patents
The Patent Office offers graduates and postgrads a long-term career in a 'semi-academic' environment You may not be the next James Dyson, but you could have a career in invention in the United...
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Council vacancies
Fancy a taste of power and influence in the world of British research funding? The Office of Science and Technology is seeking applications for a number of vacancies for part-time members of the...
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Patent advance
Anyone who wants to file a patent can now make a start digitally. The Patent Office has put the application form on the World Wide Web at www.patent.gov.uk. British law, however, means that the rest...
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Nottingham first
Research awards to Nottingham University have topped Pounds 50 million for the first time. For 1997-98 university research income totalled Pounds 50.3 million, an increase of more than Pounds 4...
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UK competitiveness
The Engineering and Physical Research Council has set out its competitive vision for the United Kingdom's processing industry in Strategic Framework. The framework describes how partnerships between...
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Cutting Edge
Development technology integrates learning and production, lets students do something outside themselves and calls for ingenuity in getting to the field It is always hard to balance home and the...
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`This is a time for broad thinking'
The Economic and Social Research Council has identified nine key themes to guide it into the next millennium. Kam Patel reports Nine research themes, ranging from the behaviour of the national and...
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The gap between the real world and the words
Since the concordat for career management of contract research staff was introduced, its implementation has been patchy. At Imperial College two contract researchers are taking the struggle to the...
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Rotation cuts frustration
The Wellcome Trust's project to train postgrads for a year in different labs is being expanded. Olga Wojtas reports on how it has taken off at Glasgow University, now one of the premier research...
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Cold wind blows on growth hope
The looming recession, formally acknowledged by ministers for the first time this week, could scupper plans to raise higher education funding, economists and vice-chancellors have warned. The...