Bank gambles on Oxford spin-offs
Oxford University has clinched a commercial deal to fund its new £60 million chemistry building. In the arrangement, believed to be the first of its kind, European investment bank Beeston Gregory...
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Ideas gap spurs DTI to act
The "knowledge gap" between companies and academics means that businesses in the United Kingdom are missing out on up to 5,000 potentially lucrative ideas, according to the Department of Trade and...
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Drilling rig helps cut need for aid
While Europe wallows in a flood-damaged reappraisal of its water management, Cranfield University is offering liquid refreshment further afield, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The university has just...
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Building bridges or just widening the divide?
Bids are invited for a commercial partner to develop Britain's e-university. With established companies pulling back from expensive investments in internet ventures, it will be interesting to see who...
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New brand must make its policy decisions now
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is dead. Long live Universities UK, launched today. To go with a new image, the universities' think-tank and pressure group also has a new president-...
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Fail at social inclusion and win more money
After campaigning for additional investment, the higher education sector is seeing results. The government is promising it substantial new funding. This is good news after the damaging decline of...
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Oxford knows its own business
John Kay's US-style vision for the Said Business School was not appropriate, says David Holmes. John Kay's thinly disguised attack on Oxford University's processes and procedures in last week's THES...
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What's in a name?
The CVCP has been rebranded but the same misguided policies remain, says Peter Knight. The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom is no more. Prompted...
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Why I believe academics should be wary of dealing with repressive regimes
On its website, the Burmese regime describes Burma as "historical", with a civilisation dating back many centuries, and stresses its own role in uncovering Burmese history. Over the past decade it...
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The Sun's in our eyes
Could the natural variability of the Sun be fooling climatologists into underestimating the human impact on the atmosphere? Stuart Clark investigates. At an altitude of 100km lies a natural boundary...
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Bugs find life in cheeses
Antibiotic resistant bugs have been found in cheese despite a three-year-old Europe-wide ban on the agricultural use of the veterinary drug thought to be responsible. The study, by Giorgio Giraffa at...
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Ash cloud root of Dark Ages
A pall of ice clouds could have ringed the globe following the colossal eruption of an Indonesian volcano, blamed by some for triggering the Dark Ages. Computer simulations have added weight to...
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Cutting edge: Colin Barr
Headline writers want only black and white, but research results come in shades of grey. In the past couple of days, the results of Countryside Survey 2000 will have hit (or missed) the newspaper...
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Opening a Pandora's Box of top research
The new head of Australian science organisation Csiro is keen to discover untapped brilliance, writes Julia Hinde. Having helped secure funding for scientific research in post-apartheid South Africa...
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French triple funds for 'mad cow' research
In response to the French public's consternation over rising numbers of cattle infected by BSE, research minister Roger-Gerard Schwartzenberg has announced a tripling of the budget for research into...