Council spurs industry focus
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is refocusing its funding strategy to help tailor courses to meet the needs of industry more closely. "Our new masters training packages should...
Search
-
-
The industrial evolution
Can Darwinism be applied to technological innovation? John Ziman examines the analogy between biological and cultural evolution. Go to a technology museum, and look at the bicycles. Then go to a...
-
Willetts’ eight are not great but ‘nonsense’
Research areas championed by government dismissed as poor investments by technology expert
-
Q&A with Paul Boyle
We speak to the new vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester and former chief executive of the ESRC
-
‘Crick of the North’ confirmed for Manchester
But centre for advanced materials will still have “satellites” in Oxbridge and London as well as Leeds, Liverpool and Sheffield
-
More postdocs, more data skills top biology sector wish list
Early results of 2014 vulnerable skills survey by BBSRC and MRC highlight concerns and importance of multidisciplinarity
-
Universities Week: Willetts announces Biomedical Catalyst funding
Universities and science minister David Willetts has announced a £48 million investment in biomedical research.
-
What academics really do on their summer ‘holidays’
A long break sounds luxurious but what is the reality? Scholars share what they did with their ‘free’ time
-
How might a teaching excellence framework be built?
As a vague policy commitment moves towards reality, Jack Grove assesses the potential ways and means
-
Cranfield University: DREAM team set to dig deep into data
Students at a new doctoral training centre will use big data to tackle challenges such as extreme weather and population growth
-
Reducing animal testing: Commission agrees partnership with industry
Brussels, 7 November 2005 Reducing animal testing is the aim of a new "European partnership to promote alternative approaches to animal testing". Industry associations from the pharmaceuticals,...
-
EESC Opinion: Commission Communication on a European Strategy for Nanotechnology (link)
Brussels, 15 December 2004 OPINION of the European Economic and Social Committee on the Communication from the Commission: Towards a European strategy for nanotechnology COM(2004) 338 final Full text...
-
University innovation funding could be linked to SME work
Heif review to ‘look again’ at incentives for helping small businesses, says Hefce chief
-
What will the end of final-salary pensions mean for academics?
As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms
-
Hermann Hauser to look at future of Catapults
Ministers have commissioned a review on the possibility of expanding the Technology Strategy Board’s network of Catapult centres.