Listen to public, GM experts told
Social scientists this week called on scientists to be frank about the limits to their knowledge in order to overcome the public mistrust of genetically modified food. In a report recommending a...
Social scientists this week called on scientists to be frank about the limits to their knowledge in order to overcome the public mistrust of genetically modified food. In a report recommending a...
Ray Dowd, principal and chief executive of Hopwood Hall College, Rochale has been appointed principal and chief executive of Wirral Metropolitan College. He will succeed Jenny Shackleton, who is...
WHAT A new, round-the-clock information network aims to get best teaching practice to all who need it, writes Cliff Allan WHY Too often, research is not disseminated and remains within the circle of...
Were Dermot Sheils and John Holland sacked by Stratford-upon-Avon College because they are disabled? Staff at the college and both men's trade unions fear so. Mr Sheils's and Mr Holland's employment...
Survival Strategies
'There should be some failure. It means you are learning more,' Richard Brook tells Natasha Loder. As chief executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the United Kingdom's...
The public may fear nuclear power, but this week energy expert Ian Fells will demand new power stations in Britain. Kam Patel reports on the scientists ridiculing Labour's energy policy On the train...
Northern Ireland's two universities suffer the region's twin disadvantages of political and economic difficulties. But, as Olga Wojtas and Noel McAdam report, their v-cs promise to transform them...
A postgraduate centre, effectively closed by Edinburgh University in 1996, has launched the first MSc course of the third millennium, a stone's-throw from its former premises. The Centre for Human...
LEVERHULME TRUST www.leverhulme.org.uk Research Interchange Grants Aim: to support visits with the objective of fostering a research project, or developing a field of research or a highly-specialised...
Any hope of a November Budget handout for industry-led training was dashed this week by Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Employment. Mr Portillo was responding to criticism from Sir Clifford...
Each week this section lists funds available for researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this service is...
In her enthusiasm to clean up Matthew Boulton College of Further and Higher Education, new principal Christine Braddock is in danger of contravening the institution's rules of governance. Last week...
THE government is determined to "modernise and refocus" the higher education establishment, a conference on lifelong learning was told this week. "If the government can sweep to power and change the...
TO BRITISH-born Marc Sharpe there was a dynamism and a drive about United States businesses that he had never experienced in this country. It spurred him to save to study for an MBA at Harvard...