'Closed' centre launches new MSc
A postgraduate centre, effectively closed by Edinburgh University in 1996, has launched the first MSc course of the third millennium, a stone's-throw from its former premises. The Centre for Human...
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Charging up the engines of development
Northern Ireland's two universities suffer the region's twin disadvantages of political and economic difficulties. But, as Olga Wojtas and Noel McAdam report, their v-cs promise to transform them...
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Estates of the nation
Universities are hatching ambitious plans involving property disposals, relocations, new buildings and higher usage. Gordon Hood reports The 1990s have seen some of the most dynamic shifts to...
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Analysis: Mixed report for class of '92
Ten years on from the end of binary divide in higher education, Claire Sanders assesses the successes and failures of new universities in a united sector Ten years ago Liverpool Polytechnic declined...
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Scots get Pounds 7.5m to develop facilities
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...
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Realising the dream
Human nature being what it is, we may live in a new world but we react in ways shaped by an old one. New visions may inspire but getting there is hard. So found Harold Wilson 30 years ago as his...
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Misplaced pressure
Rebel scientist Terence Kealey's failure to win over a well-informed audience at a debate this week in London (page 44) by arguing that government funding of science does more harm than good (and...
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The future? A pay-your-own-way free-for-all
Imagine tomorrow's world. Then think again. Fari Aklaghi looks at how scenario planning can help you be more realistic. That higher education faces considerable challenges in the near future is...
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South Africa boosts its science
Africa. South African industries and the government could soon be pumping half a billion rand (Pounds 66,500,000) a year into science and technology projects aimed at rapidly expanding the country's...
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OU project shows how 'Cezanne' knits together
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...
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Report of reflection meeting on future of COST within European Research Area, 28 January 2002
Brussels, 18 February 2002 Full text European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research - COST. Secretariat. Summary of Conclusions of the meeting of the JAF Reflection Group held...
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A few points for your attention, Mr Mayor
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...
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Cheap food, poor policy
The BSE crisis showed that health has been the missing link in the food chain. Now, writes Tim Lang, it is time for the government to enshrine public wellbeing at the heart of an open policy-making...
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Wellcome to help fund life sciences
The Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Wellcome Trust are planning to join forces to help fund laboratory equipment for health and life science researchers. The collaboration is...
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Central planning agency need not rule out diversity
Your leader (THES, October 20) rejects the call for a central higher education planning agency. You are surely right to doubt the efficacy of the proposal; but you seemed to have missed the main...