Lembit Opik: Liberal Democrat MP for Montgomeryshire and a graduate of Bristol University. At the Sharp End airs at 7.30pm, 19 January on BBC2. Few people even know Luton has a university, never mind...
Vice-chancellors must steer clear of personal commercial involvement, argues Gillian Evans When you become vice-chancellor of a high-profile university that has announced that it wants to build links...
Education secretary David Blunkett has hinted in a lecture to social scientists that he would like to see widespread changes to the research assessment exercise. Speaking at an event arranged by the...
Although R&D is vital to the bottom line, many British companies seem still not to have got the message. Martin Ince reports Are British companies finally getting enthusiastic about spending...
Brussels, 01 July 2002 Question and Answers on the regulation of GMOs in the EU This questions and answers fact sheet is divided into two sections; Part A covers legislation in force; Part B covers...
Kymata, a spin-off company from Glasgow University, could ease the global communications traffic jam and bring down costs. Its work on planar optoelectronics has produced a system that can "funnel"...
As The THES turns 30, Simon Jenkins and Tariq Ali review three turbulent decades within and without academia. After Margaret Thatcher lost power in 1990, her most revealing reflection was over her...
Review heralds far-reaching research funding changes, says Alison Goddard. Research funding is to be radically reformed following a fundamental review published today by the funding council. More...
How do you organise 603 groups - each with its own agenda, political orientation and organising style - into a coherent force that can blockade the centre of a major city, halt an international...
FSA chairman Sir John Krebs played a pivotal role in the bid to control the foot-and-mouth epidemic. Caroline Davis talked to him. In March, after the first cases of foot-and-mouth disease were...
Competition in Telecommunications
A MEETING of the Aberystwyth branch of the Association of University Teachers has passed a motion of no confidence in the university's staff management strategy. It follows recent moves to axe up to...
Labour MP Ian Gibson attacks his government's handling of the siting of the new synchrotron source. Kam Patel reports Former academic and Labour MP Ian Gibson has launched a scathing attack on the...
The European Family
Northern Ireland has the potential to thrive if it encourages young people to study there, says George Bain Next week, United States president Bill Clinton returns to Northern Ireland. For all its...