Academic bias slammed
A Training and Enterprise Council chief has launched a scathing attack on the "conspiratorial" neglect of work-based learning by academics, civil servants and politicians. Policy-makers and further...
A Training and Enterprise Council chief has launched a scathing attack on the "conspiratorial" neglect of work-based learning by academics, civil servants and politicians. Policy-makers and further...
Greenpeace may have won the political battle to stop Shell sinking its oil platform, Brent Spar, at sea but it has not won the scientific debate. Ragnar Lofstedt describes how the activists were able...
Narcotics in History - Drugs, Crime and Corruption - Eurodrugs
Natural Risk and Civil Protection
In the year that memorial tables to the four colleagues murdered by Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant were unveiled, there were several reminders that universities are not immune from...
Weekly, the media highlight another threat to human health - from BSE to powdered baby milk. But how much do we really know about such risks? Since 1987 the Society for Risk Analysis - Europe has...
The French pride themselves on Cartesian clarity. They have been trained to turn everyday difficulties into abstract problems, and to seek solutions from the top down, as consequences of general...
Scottish universities are banding together to try to beat hot competition for research cash. John Laver explains. A consortium of the 13 Scottish universities, with Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh...
As Budget Day approaches there have been the usual leaks about fights within the Cabinet over public expenditure cuts. The two alleged victims are social security and education. This is bad news for...
THE LOST VICTORY: BRITISH DREAMS, BRITISH REALITIES 1945-1950 by Correlli Barnett. Macmillan, 514pp, Pounds 20.00 - ISBN 0 333 48045 7. THE SCHUMAN PLAN AND THE BRITISH ABDICATION OF LEADERSHIP IN...
Understanding Interdependence - Interpreting Macroeconomics
Information-warfare offers the prospect of a bloodless victory. Lawrence Freedman asks whether war without death is possible. We have on offer visions of a cyber-war with "logic bombs" and "high...
Since the second world war, higher education has evolved in three distinct phases - expansion, democratisation and, currently, quality control. But Germany is among the last to enter the quality...
Science minister David Hunt announced the allocation of the Pounds 1.3 billion science budget yesterday. Mark Richmond argues against Government attempts to micro-manage research. It is now nearly...
The Meanings of Mass Higher Education