Skills and New Labour: inside education policymaking
Andy Westwood, former New Labour special adviser, asks what went wrong with skills policy
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Dublin students forced to dig it as rents rise
Property shortage has made accommodation unaffordable for many
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America Inc? Innovation and Enterprise in the National Security State, by Linda Weiss
Jörg Michael Dostal on how the NSS has enabled the US to attain technological leadership to serve its geopolitical objectives
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Ten priority actions to achieve a broad-based innovation strategy for the European Union.
Brussels, 13th September 2006 The aim of the Communication is to present “a broad based innovation strategy for Europe that translates investments in knowledge into innovative products and...
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Industries sponsor scholars
Leading companies have already poured Pounds 1 million in to a scholarship scheme launched this week by Surrey University. The Surrey Scholars' scheme was launched as part of Science, Engineering and...
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Campus close-up: Institute of Cancer Research
Putting industry collaboration at the heart of its mission helps the ICR to commercial and scholarly success
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Labour launches Green Paper on science policy
Labour will use a long-term plan for research funding to help create high-wage jobs, ending “uncertainty” in science policy created by the coalition.
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CRUK plans to make Britain ‘go-to place’ for cancer research
UK cancer charity is building on ‘monumental progress’ in treating the disease with more funding for researchers
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Graham Baldwin to be next Southampton Solent v-c
Southampton Solent University has named Graham Baldwin as its next vice-chancellor
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The USS: fact and fiction
We write as representatives of the Left on the Higher Education Committee and other University and College Union activists who are utterly opposed to any retreat from defending members’ pensions. We...
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Italy begins revamp of research strategy
In late July, Italy instated two commissions that should radically change research funding - the Comitato di Esperti per la Politica della Ricerca (CEPR) and the Comitato di Indirizzo per la...
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The future was forged in Buckingham
In exercising its autonomy, the UK’s first fully private university has blazed a trail that the rest have followed, asserts Terence Kealey
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Fred Inglis on the way we think now
Thirty years after Clifford Geertz assessed the state of thinking in the academy, the duty of academics to render the unspeakable unspeakable is imperative
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FP7 to play essential role in EU security strategy, says Verheugen
Brussels, 07 Feb 2005 The development of an EU strategy for collective security requires a competitive defence industry and innovative, technologically advanced security solutions, the EU...
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Fraunhofer head predicts expansion of model in UK
Fraunhofer UK plans to create up to four research centres in its first five years, according to the head of the country’s first centre in Glasgow