Globalisation has much to offer our society, argues Grazia Ietto-Gillies, but it requires responsible governance if we are to reverse the trends of third-world exploitation and environmental damage...
European leaders want to integrate public space efforts into other activities. Jane Marshall reports. Space is no longer a separate entity, and space exploration must be fused with other activities...
Against Equality of Opportunity
Dr. Franz FISCHLER: Approaching the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops in the EU, Roundtable on research results relating to the co-existence of GM and non-GM crops Brussels, 24 April 2003 Ladies...
A row over the commercialisation of university research and academic freedom has erupted at the London School of Economics following the decision of a major research sponsor to prematurely pull the...
Washington, 29 Jan 2004 NASA's Future Space Mission January 28 2004 The Testimony of The Honorable Sean O'Keefe Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Before the U.S....
Washington, 29 Jan 2004 NASA's Future Space Mission January 28 2004 The Testimony of The Honorable Sean O'Keefe Administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Before the U.S....
Two thousand jobs are under threat in new universities and course closures are blocking access to key degree subjects such as languages and social work for working-class communities, lecturers' union...
Pandora's Poison
Brussels, 19 March 2002 In a drive to gear up research on genomics - the study of genes and their function - the European Commission has awarded €39.4 million to three large research projects. The...
The government says regional development agencies will be the engines of enterprise. However, as Tony Tysome explains, the advantages for higher education are unclear and rather unexciting Chancellor...
Scenes from the End - A War to be Won
Martin Ince reports on the new institutions battling to preserve their research. Before last month's white paper on higher education, researchers might have thought that stratification was something...
The Roaring Nineties - The Great Unravelling