MP calls Wellcome board self-serving
Warrington MP Helen Southworth has challenged the Wellcome Trust to justify its advice to government to site the Synchrotron project at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordhsire rather than...
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Marconi gives Pounds 40m to Cambridge
Cambridge University has accepted its largest ever corporate gift - a Pounds 40 million commitment by communications giant Marconi plc to set up a communications research centre. The Marconi...
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Courses offered in football management
Football managers will soon be relegating their sheepskin coats to the bottom of the cupboard in favour of academic gowns, if plans to kick off a diploma in soccer management at Greenwich University...
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Career boost engineered through partnership
Aeronautical engineering students at Glasgow, Loughborough and Southampton universities are having their career prospects boosted through a partnership with a virtual university. BAE Systems, the...
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Talk is cheap on internet chatline
A German student has developed a computer program for cheap telephoning via the internet. Henrik Pfluger, 22, first hit on the idea of speaking into the computer rather than having to type messages...
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Site's just the business
An exclusive online recruitment service geared towards the needs of MBAs and world-class firms has been launched with the backing of top business schools. Global Workplace.com, a spin-off from the...
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High energy
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has launched a Pounds 600,000 partnership between higher education and industry to research energy technologies and get them...
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Platform soul
Terence Karran, acting director of the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside's centre for access and lifelong learning, is to chair a pan-European distance learning association. The Platform...
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Social skills
Postgraduate social science students can brush up their methodological skills online thanks to a collaboration between the Economic and Social Research Council and the Data Archive. TRaMSS (Training...
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History of the reel gets virtual
The history of the 20th century, as seen through cinema newsreel, is documented in a CD-Rom and website launched yesterday by the British Universities Film and Video Council. Historians and students...
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Royal Society role in GM debate
Tom Wakeford suggests that the British Association for the Advancement of Science rejected his article for Science and Public Affairs on the grounds that we did not want to upset the Royal Society...
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Royal Society role in GM debate
During a period of high emotion over GM technology, the Royal Society has consistently called for balanced and responsible argument based on scientific evidence. We are not pro-GM. We are in favour...
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Research defended
Those angry responses (Readers' reactions, THES, March 24) to my article in the previous week's issue (Soapbox, THES, March 17) warrant brief comment. The foremost issue involves the research I have...
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Derby and Israel
You have twice referred to me personally in your "Whistleblowers" column (THES, March 17 and 24) in relation to events purported to have occurred in October 1997. The references were based on an...
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Playing by the rules
Andrew Pakes is entirely wrong in saying Leeds United football club should suspend immediately the two players charged in connection with what police consider to be a racially motivated assault on a...