Campus close-up: Queen Margaret University
A Scottish institution aims to tackle obesity with products developed in a new food innovation centre
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Catapult centres 鈥榮hould number 30 by 2030鈥
The government should double the annual budget of its innovation agency to 拢1 billion so it can establish more 鈥淐atapult鈥 centres, a new report says
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Commission to put forward new SME strategy
Brussels, 02 Aug 2005 Enterprise and Industry Commissioner G眉nter Verheugen has announced that he will launch a new strategy for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the autumn. 'I will...
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Chinese new year
Japan loses its crown to its main regional rival, as massive state funding and innovation pay dividends for the People鈥檚 Republic, writes Katie Duncan
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Marking boycott could be suspended next week
UCU to consult on halting action to allow more talks, provided academics鈥 pay is not docked
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Campus close-up: University of Sussex
Nearing its half-century, the Science Policy Research Unit鈥檚 bold bid to find 鈥榬adical solutions鈥 to global problems will cast the expertise net wide
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Sir Mark Walport debunks 鈥榤yth鈥 that he is pushing research agenda
Chief scientific adviser is 鈥榓mused鈥 by funding conspiracy theories but dismisses them as 鈥榗omplete invention鈥
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The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson, directed by Julien Temple
Filming in what they believed were Wilko Johnson鈥檚 final days, the guitarist and the director offer up a celebratory vision of culture and life, writes Andrew Blake
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AHRC needs new focus and funding to boost creative-industry research
Million+ highlights increasing economic value of sector to the UK. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Germany aims to send 50 per cent of students abroad by 2020
Plans are part of industrial strategy to steal a march on other export-driven countries
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Industry moves to prevent accidents at work
Brussels, 08 Feb 2006 European industrial accidents cause an injury every eight seconds, and a death every two hours. These alarming statistics were called 'astonishing and unacceptable', by Janez...
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Strategy 'ignores' HE role in skills provision
The government's skills strategy is disjointed and incomplete because it ignores higher education, the University Vocational Awards Council has said. The strategy fails to recognise the contribution...
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ESRC calls for skills strategy in workplace
Government policies on skills and innovation will not create an economy capable of competing effectively in the global markets, according to a new report. Robert Taylor, media fellow with the...
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Crisis at Work: Identity and the End of Career, by Jesse Potter
Bankers swap cufflinks for cassocks in an era of reinvention not defined by pay, finds Leslie Gofton