Engineering trio forge professional body
Three institutions have merged to form one professional engineering institution representing incorporated engineers and engineering technicians. The new Institution of Incorporated Engineers (IIE)...
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Labs plug into microelectronic circuit
A "network of excellence" has been created in silicon microelectronics manufacturing technology to coordinate integrated circuit processing expertise and resources at five major research and...
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Council tempts young engineers with Pounds 50,000
The Engineering Council is inviting 11 to 25-year-olds at school, college or undergoing training in industry to register their entry for the "Young Engineers for Britain" competition. The deadline is...
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BT awards Pounds 500,000 to six universities
Six universities have been awarded a total of Pounds 500,000 by BT to encourage greater collaboration between industry and higher education to meet the challenges of the information society. The...
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Project aims to boost business biologists
The Biotechnology Young Entrepreneurs Scheme has launched its 1998 competition aimed at addressing the shortage of business-minded scientists in Britain's rapidly expanding biotechnology industry....
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CLRC takes stake in high-tech firm
Ceravision, a new company aiming to produce affordable large, flat-panel display screens, is linking up in a business partnership with the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils...
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Don't come a cropper, reap those rewards
Olga Wojtas describes how a unique blend of teaching, research and consultancy makes the Scottish Agricultural College indispensable to farmers. The Scottish Agricultural College is one of the United...
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Nerve centre for combined ops
Claire Sanders visits a new interdisciplinary neuroscience centre that aims to advance our minimal understanding of the brain. Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry's new neuroscience centre are...
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The rise of the adviser
Consultancy is a growing area for academics. Ayala Ochert reports. These days, it seems, everyone is a consultant. Over the past decade, the word has gone through a proliferation of meanings - a...
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Botanists plan inter-oral work
David Jobbins reveals a project to update and expand electronically a seminal work on European flora. A new taxonomy of European and Mediterranean plants is being planned by botanists across Europe....
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History man from Bologna
A chance meeting in an archive led David Ellwood to a career in a country with a 'tremendous respect for learning'. Paul Bompard reports. David Ellwood, 51, is associate professor of contemporary...
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'Publish and be damned if I pay'
Your manuscript has finally been accepted by a top journal. The proofs are on your desk - as is a bill for $600. Natasha Loder looks at page charges The issue of journals charging to publish research...
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Patients - a real virtue in biomedical innovation
Government science policies focus on developing links with industry but that is not the only place fruits of academic research can be applied. Jenny Gristock reports
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Trust to your tacit knowledge
A guide to girding your intellect on the long research road, faced with the mindset of the 'institutionalised dominant', by Pete Mann So you're contributing through your research to the stock of...
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Students paid after 'nepotism' inquiry
Students have been compensated Pounds 100 each for "unacceptable mismanagement" following unrest at Anglia Polytechnic University's Business School. The students at Anglia Business School, sitting a...