An island set in a lager sea
Hope and Glory
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Paul Marginson, senior lecturer in industrial relations at the University of Warwick, has been appointed to the chair in human resource management and employment relations; George...
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Grants
University of Birmingham European funds Dr G. Boons, Pounds 71,269 from the Commission (synthetic saccharides to study the immunological properties of type III group B streptoccus oligosaccharides);...
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Parting political shots
The French pride themselves on Cartesian clarity. They have been trained to turn everyday difficulties into abstract problems, and to seek solutions from the top down, as consequences of general...
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Not just a lot of old Tosh
Christina Preston on a ground-breaking in-service training alliance between teachers and industry. Most teachers have had few first degree opportunities to learn the skills or explore the...
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight, this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk European Union Fourth Research & Technological...
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Fees the only option
Students stranded by Brown's budget. FEES for students became a near certainty this week when Gordon Brown's budget failed to find any extra cash for higher education. While the Chancellor managed to...
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Wisdom on a forecourt
The Gas Station in America
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Canada gets wise to science's social life
Canada lags behind most industrialised nations in recognising the crucial role of science and technology, according to a new report, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. Research and development spending,...
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New government prefers to control
Nineteen-ninety-seven has been a dramatic year. In May the new model Labour party swept to power in the general election with an even larger majority than expected. A surge of euphoria greeted its...
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Unis eye Euro regeneration funds
AS European Union leaders this week thrashed out the Treaty of Amsterdam, the Labour Government proved it could take as firm a stand as its predecessor when it felt its interests are threatened. But...
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Blimp, Jeeves and Wooster
Correlli Barnett argues that Britain failed to reinvent itself after the war partly because of its inept and liberal elite. When Britain under its new Labour Government made the transition from war...
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Cyberspace: the ethical frontier
A revolution ignores moral issues at its peril, argue Simon Rogerson and Terrell Ward Bynum. Computing technology is the most powerful and flexible technology ever devised. For this reason it is...
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NHS funds to be streamlined with `broad strokes'
The streamlining of National Health Service research money into a single funding channel, as recommended in a major report last month, will have to be a "broad brush" exercise because of the...
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Appointments
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has appointed the following governors: Charles Bean, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE;...