UK biotech supremacy threatened
The UK biotechnology industry is the strongest in Europe, but the Germans are coming.Kam Patel reports A picture of a "pluralistic yet highly concentrated" system for the funding of biotechnology in...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
International history, I realise with hindsight, is a discipline strikingly bereft of Big Books, though it was unmistakably in thrall to Dead White Diplomats when I was an undergraduate. My degree...
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The battle over biology
Kam Patel talks to veteran zoologist Edward O. Wilson, whose controversial classic, Sociobiology , is 25 years old. The Harvard zoologist Edward O. Wilson has few regrets about writing Sociobiology...
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A dime for your sterling thoughts
It may not be a macho pursuit, but John Driffill could not resist adapting a major American economics text for European readers. Writing textbooks is not an activity universally held in high esteem...
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Everyone online, but who pays?
Universities and publishers should cooperate more if tomorrow's students are to be as well served for 'textbooks' as today's, says Mark Bide.The day of the "electronic textbook" has yet to dawn,...
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Seoul
Hundreds of leftist students demanded an end to the United States military presence in South Korea and called for a government condemnation of the bombing by a US jet fighter on a range near a...
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Cambridge opens Turkish talks
Cambridge University has entered into talks with Turkey's higher education authority to co-operate on internet tuition. Anil Seale, of the Cambridge Overseas Trust, has been in discussions with...
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Increase in black applicants
The number of black applicants for full-time higher education courses has increased by 3.3 per cent on last year, while the number of Asian applicants has increased by 2.6 per cent, according to the...
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Factors in good multimedia design
The players. The artists Artists generally work with static images to present a message or induce emotions. At times, the message may have many interpretations, and it is left to the viewer to form...
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Move to end funding split
Funding chiefs are considering a more common approach to resourcing further and higher education. The move aims to do away with "perverse" financial incentives for FE colleges to switch sectors as...
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad held an unscheduled closed-door meeting with 34 undergraduates from the International Medical University to discuss their claim that the university had...
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R&D faces a Pounds 2bn shortfall
An additional Pounds 2 billion needs to be pumped into research and development to put the United Kingdom on a par with competitor nations, according to two damning reports. One report, by the...
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FE invests in private partnerships
Further education's biggest public-private partnership deal, announced this week, has been hailed by funding chiefs as the future for supporting major redevelopment in the sector. Canterbury College...
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Food science industry starved of recruits
Falling numbers of students pursuing food science in British universities are putting the industry at risk, an expert panel has warned. Alastair Robertson, chairman of the Institute of Food Research...
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Edwards to become Newcastle v-c
Christopher Edwards (below), principal of Imperial College, London's school of medicine, will become vice-chancellor of Newcastle University from January 2001, following James Wright's retirement....