How Blair can remedy the right state we're in
Labour must modernise industry and back regional growth if it is not once again to preside over a slump, argues Colin Hay. Now that Labour has won the election, the debate over the party's self-...
Labour must modernise industry and back regional growth if it is not once again to preside over a slump, argues Colin Hay. Now that Labour has won the election, the debate over the party's self-...
STIRLING University researchers are mapping the scope and scale of the political public relations industries and the professional groups who staff them. The work, led by Philip Schlesinger of...
How a concept such as "Cezanne" is transformed into a knitting pattern is the subject of a project just launched by the Open University. Researchers aim to find out where designers get their...
International Journal of Cultural Studies - Cultural Values
Away from the farce of London's mayoral race, academics have been looking at the policies. Anne Sebba reports. You might be forgiven for thinking the election of London's new mayor in May 2000...
Women of China - Women of the long march
The reclamation of "brownfield" sites, the economics of renewable energy sources, high-tech materials for medical uses, and food hygiene and nutrition are among 17 projects backed by the Scottish...
The lack of a coherent strategy to market Australian education institutions in Asia is putting a Aus$3 billion-a-year (Pounds 1.2 million) export industry at risk, according federal government...
Why did Bill Gates, the world's richest man, take time off from building his fortune and fighting the US Justice Department to lecture to a bunch of London students? Kam Patel went to find out. A...
The Open University is 30, flourishing and serving as a role model to universities around the world, as Alison Goddard discovers "Blithering nonsense!" That's how heavyweight Tory politician Sir Iain...
The Government has placed responsibility for the United Kingdom's numerous collections of cultures and micro-organisms in the hands of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The...
Gerald Wilson, secretary of the Scottish Office education and industry department, has defended the government's decision to turn down the Garrick Committee's call for a chief scientific adviser for...
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL www.nerc.ac.uk Earth...
The National Teaching Fellowships Scheme is shortly to award its first 20 prizes. But, as Jennifer Currie reports, the winners see the awards less as personal gain than as a tribute to their...
STUDENTS in South Korea are learning more about the west as part of their country's Saegaewha, or "Greater Globalisation", programme. English language, western business and other international...