Access: an unhealthy obsession
Instead of seizing lifelong learning and developing a stimulating vision for an inclusive, interactive yet excellent higher education system, we seem to be driving down a narrow road obsessed with...
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What Labour has done so far
THES reporters assess the impact of Labour's first year of government on higher and further education and unravel how they have sold their policies to the country May 1 1997: Labour elected with 179-...
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Labour pledge on research units
Hopes that a Labour government would rescue the Office of Science and Technology from the Department of Trade and Industry were diminished yesterday when Labour said that it would only "review" the...
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The right design
Engineering Design and Automation
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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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Portillo dashes training cash hope
Any hope of a November Budget handout for industry-led training was dashed this week by Michael Portillo, Secretary of State for Employment. Mr Portillo was responding to criticism from Sir Clifford...
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Breaths of fresh air
As Oxford's latest spin-off seals a deal to exploit asthma research, Kam Patel looks at what business incubation units can do Asthma researchers at Oxford University have entered a deal with...
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Kingston's Pounds 1m media future
Greg Dyke, Pearson Television's chief executive, launched Kingston University's Pounds 1 million digital media centre this week with a prediction of massive growth and booming job prospects in the...
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Isn't it about time Labour abolished the TECs?
Unaccountable, overburdened, outdated -TECs have had their day, writes Julian Gravatt Training and enterprise councils are an idea whose time has gone, and they should be abolished. An innovation of...
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Several steps ahead for the union dues
I WILL always remember the morning that Leon Brittan resigned from the Cabinet over the Westland affair. It was a marvellous occasion ripe with drama and intrigue. The great, the good and the bag...
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How to get a job in science policy
Tired of doing research? Why not switch camps and helpdecide who gets the vital funding In universities all over the country, one of the great topics of common-room conversation is the allocation of...
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Glittering prizes
Nancy Rothwell will be the 169th presenter of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures this month. Anthony King, 64, professor in the department of government at Essex University, has been invited to...
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New learning and teaching body set to reward excellence
Will education control be local, regional or national? THES reporters monitor moving battlelines EXCELLENCE in teaching is to be rewarded through a new strategy announced by the Higher Education...
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Out for the count
The situation in my department following a recent meeting on the upcoming research assessment exercise, due to be completed in December 2000, is a stark one. Apparently, no funding will come forth...
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Genome Valley lessons
A British mission finds much to learn from the United States bioindustry. Kam Patel reports. Functional genomics is the new buzzword in the biotechnology industry in the United States. But if it is...