United pitch in acut-throat world
Scottish universities are banding together to try to beat hot competition for research cash. John Laver explains. A consortium of the 13 Scottish universities, with Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh...
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The appliance of science potential
Science minister David Hunt announced the allocation of the Pounds 1.3 billion science budget yesterday. Mark Richmond argues against Government attempts to micro-manage research. It is now nearly...
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Warts, test rejections and all
Understanding Interdependence - Interpreting Macroeconomics
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System due for change
Since the second world war, higher education has evolved in three distinct phases - expansion, democratisation and, currently, quality control. But Germany is among the last to enter the quality...
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Business worry for assessors
Business and management course providers have emerged as too complacent in the latest quality assessments by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Only one of 13 higher education...
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Sacked lecturers as cheap labour
An agricultural college is making six lecturers compulsorily redundant and offering them jobs back as "practical instructors" on half their previous pay. A total of 12 horticultural lecturers' jobs...
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Praise be Ford
Ken Mortimer argues that staff development in the car company giant is a prerequisite to survival in the brave new world of technology. Twenty-five years ago Ford was known as one of the best...
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Blue chip partnership
The University of Nottingham makes millions of pounds from industry Colin Campbell explains. Recently it was announced that the University of Nottingham, with an annual income of Pounds 6.3 million,...
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Tomorrow's tonic or today's bitter pill?
Simon Targett discovers how, despite a recent dip in the share price of a major biotech firm, Britain's academic spin-off companies are still on to a good thing. Just three weeks ago the share price...
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Operation Overload in the shadow of the Somme
Information-warfare offers the prospect of a bloodless victory. Lawrence Freedman asks whether war without death is possible. We have on offer visions of a cyber-war with "logic bombs" and "high...
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A 'post' man on his rounds
The Meanings of Mass Higher Education
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A brief history of consumption
Fables of Abundance - Marketing Madness - The Unmanageable Consumer
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We must use the technology
Foresight panels had a rocky start but should now carry on.Ben Gill explains. The 1993 White Paper Realising Our Potential highlighted the need to make wealth creation the major driver in...
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The $64m helix
The Golden Helix - Genetic Engineering
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...