'This university has to be led by academics'
Malcolm Grant University College London The walls of the cavernous rooms of the provost of University College London have been re-papered but otherwise remain bare. Malcolm Grant, the new incumbent,...
Malcolm Grant University College London The walls of the cavernous rooms of the provost of University College London have been re-papered but otherwise remain bare. Malcolm Grant, the new incumbent,...
Up to half the former polytechnics may be effectively stripped of their research role under proposals in the government's strategy document due next month. Education secretary Charles Clarke is...
The Roaring Nineties - The Great Unravelling
The Roaring Nineties - The Great Unravelling
What must the government address in its upcoming strategy paper? Alan Thomson opens a series on the vital issues by asking whether ministers' aims to get half the population into HE are achievable or...
Brussels, 15 February 2002 On Monday, 18 February 2002 European Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin will present his view on how best the European research efforts against landmines should be...
Ireland's seven universities have been told that they need to re-position themselves as a strong system and not just a collection of separate institutions. They have also been warned that the...
Conflicting priorities within Whitehall in the run-up to the government's strategic paper on higher education are threatening to produce a logjam in academic salaries that could hamper ministers'...
The research councils should be "capable of operating as a 'virtual single council'" whose boundaries are invisible to the people they work with. This is the message of the quinquennial review of the...
The "knowledge gap" between companies and academics means that businesses in the United Kingdom are missing out on up to 5,000 potentially lucrative ideas, according to the Department of Trade and...
Brussels, 29 Oct 2002 Reports on the EU candidate countries' progress on the road to accession show that they are ready to participate in the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) on an equal footing with...
The UK's army of part-time lecturers, who teach up to a third of undergraduate degrees, has lacked support and secure employment for too long, says Richard Blackwell. My experience of part-time...
Brussels, 05 Dec 2002 What is the HLG on Hydrogen and Fuel Cells? The High Level Group on Hydrogen and Fuel cells was formally launched in Brussels on 10th October 2002 by the Vice President of the...
Cambridge's plan to take ownership of most campus-generated intellectual property will do untold damage, writes Ross Anderson. Insurrection is brewing at Cambridge University over proposals to take...
Paris, 18 Feb 2003 In the late afternoon of Friday 31 January, a final trim manoeuvre nudged Artemis into its assigned position in geostationary orbit, completing a most remarkable satellite recovery...