Klug wants overhaul of science policy system
The tradition of neutrality among members of official scientific advisory committees should be abandoned, according to Sir Aaron Klug, president of the Royal Society. In his anniversary address last...
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Anytime, anywhere deal
Academic portal builder ingenta has struck an "anytime, anywhere" content deal with Freeserve, the number one free internet service provider in the United Kingdom. The two companies will produce and...
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Forging healthy links
Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, Henry McLeish, has stressed the importance of collaboration between higher education and business in a "state of the nation" address. Mr...
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Nicol Stephen
Nicol Stephen, deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, praised Aberdeen College for helping to turn the vision of a learning nation into a reality through a Pounds 3.2 million...
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Maja's pioneer Phd
Staffordshire University student Maja Benson is the first woman at Staffordshire University to be awarded a PhD in engineering for pioneering work on mobile phone systems. She recently completed a...
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All human life is here
The Life Sciences Directory, containing the combined membership lists of five prestigious United Kingdom learned societies, is now available online (www.lifescientists.org) in a fully searchable...
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The wireless hunt
The Mobile Data Access System is a super search engine being developed by Ali Hurson and James Lin, researchers at Pennsylvania State University, to enable mobile phones and other portable devices to...
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Two-year degrees should be seen as stepping stones
Two-year degrees are back on the agenda. The appeal of this hardy perrenial is obvious: quick, cheap and designed to prepare large numbers for jobs at technician level where skill shortages often...
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Readers' reactions
...Philip Stott argued that rainforests are not essential to our survival on this planet Helen Woodward Sudent at the Open University Even if Philip Stott is partially right in saying we do not...
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Cutting Edge
Well into the next century, thousands will still be suffering Chernobyl's legacy: contaminated soil poisoning the food chain 'It was estimated that radiocaesium concentrations in fish in Lake...
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Guidelines are needed to help recruit experts
Sir Aaron Klug is right (page 15) that there are too few disinterested experts to supply the many scientific advisory committees. The scarcity is acute in biotechnology and information science but...
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Time for society to see old people in a new light
An ageing population is cause for celebration and should not be equated with helplessness, argues Brian Groombridge In the past few months the business press has agonised about the brain drain of...
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Why I......wanted to get little-known academics onto television
Henrietta Foster Producer of the Channel 4 series Millennium Minds, a discussion of some of the world's most influential thinkers When I was first asked to put together a proposal for Millennium...
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Costing the universe
Mars Polar Lander is this week's costly space failure. Yet John Zarnecki argues we should spend more on space research What is next in the following sequence - Mars '96, Cluster, Mars Climate Orbiter...
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The myth about media studies
Media studies is no cop-out subject, but one that attracts high-calibre students, says Ivor Gaber "Unfortunately, the myth has grown up that glamorous media jobs are there for the taking for those...