US view is asset in the UK
Rob Haslehurst, 26, left Imperial College London with a first in electrical engineering to work with the UK-based strategy consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting. Its operation in Boston has a strong...
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Downturn will not diminish MBAs' kudos
Demand for global business courses has fallen, but many individuals still value the experience. David Jobbins reports On the face of it, international MBA programmes are in trouble. Applications are...
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Tuck - a cold place with warm people
Demand for global business courses has fallen, but many individuals still value the experience. David Jobbins reports Leela Damm, 31, a history and English literature graduate from Edinburgh...
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Diversity pays off with Parisian elite
Demand for global business courses has fallen, but many individuals still value the experience. David Jobbins reports Julia Homayoun-Nejad, 31, read communication and information studies at Brunel...
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A good social return on your investment
Demand for global business courses has fallen, but many individuals still value the experience. David Jobbins reports Rob Langrick is one of six Britons out of 261 students in the class of 2006 at...
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'HEC has saved me from career mistake'
Demand for global business courses has fallen, but many individuals still value the experience. David Jobbins reports Robert Couper, 36, says his time at France's HEC may have saved him from making a...
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France's prized school gives students a rich experience
Audencia, one of France's top five business schools, lists its strengths as academic and research excellence, an international outlook and close ties with businesses. But Jean-Pierre Helfer, the...
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Labs can throw a lifeline to our struggling nations
Tony Blair must make the creation of scientists throughout the developing world a priority, says Robert May A major factor in the Western world's takeover of the New World and Oceania was the viral...
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Gary Day
Although we need to prepare youngsters for employment, we also need to educate them in the art of living As I write, highly trained demolition experts are knocking down my university. Well, not quite...
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Don's diary: Immune to the gambling bug
Invited to give a presentation at the International Herpes Virus Workshop, I accepted without a second thought. Lake Tahoe, Nevada, US - sounds great, I thought. Saturday Twenty-four hours after...
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Key to make the cash tills ring
Lord Sainsbury, the Science Minister, is renowned for his ability to say very little when questioned on issues of scientific policy. But that approach may be harder to pull off now that the...
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Script was bit of a dead parrot
All too frequently, senior figures in politics and science pass off articles and speeches written by their poorly paid secretaries as their own. So we congratulate Lord May, the president of the...
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Can't take the strain
A seminar on academic stress, due to be held in Parliament on Tuesday, was cancelled at the last minute this week. Rumour has it that the Association of University Teachers couldn't cope with the...
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Is Brown Mandy-bashing again?
Trust an audience of political academics and journalists to spot the spin (real or imagined) in a Gordon Brown speech. The Chancellor made an apparently innocent proposal to establish an Institute...
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Why I ... believe political correctness pours cold water on fiery debate
Many people in these allegedly enlightened times are afraid of thinking. They cleave to their opinions as to an old coat that has become worn, shapeless and finished. In many cases, those opinions...