Funding revamp shifts focus of science
Sweden is restructuring its research network to focus on innovation. Michael de Laine reports on the changes and on the country's key role in arctic studies. A bill to revamp Swedish research funding...
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V-cs plan body to lift standards
David Jobbins and Philip Fine report on the Association of Commonwealth Universities meeting in Ottawa. Commonwealth vice-chancellors have approved in principle a plan for a Commonwealth...
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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...
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Why engineers must go back to nature
Kam Patel reports on an initiative that aims to inject green ideas into Britain's engineering courses. Engineers must be aware of their stewardship of the planet, not just during their lifetime but...
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Robots kick off World Cup
ADVANCED robotics and artificial intelligence will meet the challenges of international soccer with Cybermondial, the World Cup of Robot Footballers in Paris later this month. Some 60 teams of...
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Key skills are a capitalist issue
UNIVERSITIES will never be able to define and assess a set of "key skills" acceptable to industry, an Institute of Education report will warn later this month, writes Phil Baty. The report's author,...
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Not enough to stop the brain drain
Steve Farrar and Giselle Weiss round up the responses to thegovernment's white paper on science and innovation, Excellence and Opportunity, while below is a summary of the paper's main points The...
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Misguided crusade for a private good
The National Wealth
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MM 2001: War without risk
Modern warfare can be a 'political entertainment' in which little is chanced, or a hell where civilians, not armies, are targeted. Mary Kaldor explains The 18th and 19th centuries were periods of...
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Forget the cultural stuff, just give them the lingo
Languages are threatened by a new perception of them as just a skill for getting a job, says Michael Kelly Few people doubt the value of learning foreign languages. Surveys show that about 85 per...
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Liberation in merger
The 18th-century Palladian mansion and 260 acres of surrounding parkland and lakes would form an attractive asset to any portfolio. Add to that the internationally acclaimed Yorkshire Sculpture Park...
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French PM moves to promote innovation
France is to break down the legal barriers separating public research and private industry and introduce tax and other financial breaks to support the creation of high-tech and other innovatory...
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Scottish artists are being sold short
An art college principal accused Scottish funding chiefs of selling young artists and designers short, challenging the Scottish executive to recognise art and design as a higher education priority....
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Comrades try to get Prudence to wear more red
Socialism has had setbacks in the 25 years since young leftwinger Gordon Brown edited The Red Paper on Scotland . Bob Tait joined a gathering to discuss the way forward. It was, on the face of it, an...
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At sea without a chart
It's high time the UK developed a national policy on marine issues, says Jacqueline McGlade The oceans and seas are of economic and social importance to the United Kingdom: they provide natural...