Cloning a golden fleece
Dolly the sheep had two 'parents' - one private, the other public. Olga Wojtas talks to the MD who saw that cloning could be profitable The science story of 1997 was undoubtedly the cloning of Dolly...
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Strength in uni-ty
Why," asks Simon Jenkins on page 17, "are our universities so timid?" In his book, Accountable to None: the Tory Nationalisation of Britain, published this week, he has rehearsed the sorry saga of...
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Revised revisionism
New Labour in Power - The British General Election of 1997 - From Blitz to Blair
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Leanliness of the long-distance runner
MEGA-UNIVERSITIES AND KNOWLEDGE MEDIA John Daniel Kogan Page, 211 pp, Pounds 35.00. - ISBN 0 7494 2119 3. This year has been the Year of Lifelong Learning. Perhaps as good an indicator as any of the...
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Planet Earth calling Joe Public
Ragnar E. Lofstedt questions whether the Government's public awareness campaign to cut energy consumption for environmental reasons is hitting home. The UK is one of the few nations in Europe that is...
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Tomorrow's tonic or today's bitter pill?
Simon Targett discovers how, despite a recent dip in the share price of a major biotech firm, Britain's academic spin-off companies are still on to a good thing. Just three weeks ago the share price...
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The Korean connection
Foreign investment in manufacturing industry can have a huge pay-off for British universities and research if all sides are willing to build a partnership, Yong-Doo Cho argues. The Koreans are coming...
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The Pounds 5bn super agency
This week David Blunkett unveiled ministers' plans for a new post-16 education and training system. THES reporters analyse the details. The 80-page Learning to Succeed white paper sets out a...
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Scots step up a gear
Six higher education institutions in Edinburgh are pioneering a Scottish superhighway scheme which is in the forefront of academic telecommunications. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Napier University,...
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When the Net gets too hot for commerce to handle
Alistair Chalmers says Internet near meltdowns in the US and Australia offer lessons that the UK's academic network managers must learn Most readers of this piece will be familiar with Janet, the...
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Pundit becomes a prof
Phil Baty talks to Will Hutton, the Observer editor who has recently added an economics professorship to his portfolio. Will Hutton, editor of The Observer and veteran economics correspondent, has...
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Lost science jobs lead to standstill
The appointment of France's first scientific council, the Comite d'Orientation Strategique, to advise the government directly on research policy, was marked by 24-hour closures at four major...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Union mergers make sense for all staff
Higher education is at a crossroads and the need for cooperation between trade unions in higher education has never been more pressing. With unions spanning academic and related support staff, a...
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Gandhi's sartorial message
Clothing Matters