Appointments
* Diana Liverman, former director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona, has been appointed director of the Environmental Change Institute and professor of...
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Academic pay could link to NHS scales
The issue of linking academic pay to the National Health Service was raised this week as part of a discussion on a shake-up of career structures for nursing academics. The Department of Health's...
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Aston finds fat-buster clue
Aston University researchers are seeking industrial partners to develop an anti-obesity drug that exploits a fat-burning process that affects cancer patients. Weight loss is triggered by a protein,...
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Society to seek rejig of funding
The Royal Society is expected next week to call for a radical rethink of how research is funded, with serious implications for the dual-support system and the research assessment exercise. Royal...
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Blair backs UK biotechnology
Prime minister Tony Blair this week reassured UK scientists that he fully supports biotechnology after academics wrote to him complaining that genetic modification research was under threat. Mr Blair...
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Minister told to act over science threat
MPs this week accused science minister Lord Sainsbury of being "astonishingly laid-back" about the threat of closure hanging over many university physical science departments. The House of Commons...
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UK ahead of rivals in technology transfer
UK university technology transfer is in robust shape despite the global economic downturn and a fall in the number of spin-off companies from British universities, according to a comprehensive survey...
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What's up and what's down
* A total of 561 full-time staff worked on technology-transfer activity at UK universities in 2002, an average of six per institution * A total of 158 spin-offs were created in 2002 * Fifty spin-offs...
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Spin-offs are only part of the story of industry links
Exeter University In the late 1980s, Exeter University had a lucrative royalty deal for an anti-cancer drug with a pharmaceutical company. The income was shared between the inventors and...
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Laurie Taylor Column
I see that the AUT is calling for a strike. Excellent news. About time we showed a bit of industrial muscle. We've let the bastards trample over us for far too long. It's going to call out all its 47...
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Laurie Taylor Column
I see that the AUT is calling for a strike. Excellent news. About time we showed a bit of industrial muscle. We've let the bastards trample over us for far too long. It's going to call out all its 47...
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Leader: Howard should choose principle over populism
For a new Conservative spokesman to argue, as Tim Yeo did this week, that he needed time to review existing policies before confirming his support for them would seem perfectly reasonable. But when...
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Leader: Howard should choose principle over populism
For a new Conservative spokesman to argue, as Tim Yeo did this week, that he needed time to review existing policies before confirming his support for them would seem perfectly reasonable. But when...
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Will HMC accusers stand up? 1
I am alarmed at the accusations and innuendoes surrounding Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and its principal Ralph Waller. What began as a legitimate complaint by disgruntled graduates and their...
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Will HMC accusers stand up? 2
Juxtaposition of facts can mislead ("Row over freedom of speech at Oxford", THES , November 7). You report that I "was not prepared to make" inquiries about the 30 alumni signatories to an open...