Do the big shots call the shots?
Industry giants put millions of pounds into university research, but what do they expect in return? The THES spotlights three of the big spenders. The aero-engines and industrial power systems maker...
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Industry giants put millions of pounds into university research, but what do they expect in return? The THES spotlights three of the big spenders Big firms spend big money on university research, but...
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Cash for Scots network
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has awarded Pounds 161,500 to three universities to help develop a learning network for remote sensing, a method of studying the environment on local,...
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Collaboration in vogue
Working with customers and suppliers is the most highly rated form of collaboration by firms, according to a study by science and technology think-tank Cest. It was voted most important by 85 per...
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Library lottery grant
The Consortium of University Research Libraries has been awarded Pounds 10,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards a Pounds 36,650 study into how retrospective conversion of catalogue records for...
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Drug boosts cancer hopes
A drug routinely used to treat high blood pressure may also protect against cancer, researchers in Glasgow University's medical school believe. The scientists stress that the connection has yet to be...
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Japan gets patent fund
Waseda University in Tokyo has joined with Daiwa Securities to create Japan's first fund for patenting and marketing university research, writes John Greenlees in Japan. The Waseda-Daiwa Pilot Fund...
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EPSRC conference
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council will be holding a conference on postgraduate research in electronics, photonics and related fields at the University of Manchester Institute of...
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UK lobby seizes Euro initiative
For the first time in negotiations over Euro-research there is an articulate voice speaking for those most actively involved - the researchers themselves. Researchers funded through the EU's Marie...
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Weapons disposal launches into profit
A submarine rocket launch in Russia could point the way to a new means of getting rid of Cold war weaponry that brings in a profit instead of costing money. Scientists from the Technical University...
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Board invites arts bid for cash
GRANTS of up to Pounds 500,000 will be given to research projects by the new Arts and Humanities Research Board if plans are approved in the autumn. Researchers will be able to ask for a maximum...
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Patronage under fire
A CAMBRIDGE University don imprisoned for knowingly distributing HIV-infected blood in the 1993 French blood and Aids scandal was again at the centre of a controversy this week as it emerged that the...
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Manchester to become computer superpower
A Pounds 26-million supercomputer service funded and managed under a private finance initiative will go to Manchester University. The machine will be based on Silicon Graphics' latest T3E-1200E...
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Asia crisis hits student subsidy
THE FINANCIAL crisis in Asia is likely to force New Zealand to renege on a plan to boost university and polytechnic spending by $NZ103 million (Pounds 33 million). Prime minister Jenny Shipley said a...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a colourful tale of Washington intrigue written by an unidentified source...