Cranfield School of Management has provided laptops to all of its full-time Master of Business Administration students as part of their Pounds 18,500 tuition package. Deborah Harry, Cranfield's...
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The University of Dundee's department of applied computing has been awarded Pounds 50,000 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for a three-year project that could mean the end of...
Malcolm Peltu reports on how UCL's training experience is now helping the wider community gain a business foothold on the net A training approach developed at University College London for teaching...
To expand or not to expand? And if to expand, expand what? Chris Woodhead, head of the schools inspectorate, thinks higher education has expanded enough, perhaps even too much: there will not be...
The new National Institute for Clinical Excellence is right to ask for more facts about Relenza, Glaxo Wellcome's new flu drug (page 64). For the GP, few prospects are worse than a drug that...
Biscuit-dunking, IgNobel-winning physicist Len Fisher wonders if popular platforms can get across the real wonders of science Harvard University's Sanders Theatre was packed last week for an event...
A synthetic "pig muck" scent developed by British scientists that would put off even the most ardent suitor is attracting the attention of livestock farmers. The foul-smelling brew was cooked up by...
A radical treatment for snoring, which involves modifying the palate with radio waves, has been given a glowing bill of health in long-term tests. A team from the Stanford Sleep Disorders and...
Research into the link between mortality and inequality has been given a boost by a government that appears to care more. Geoff Watts reports According to an 1842 report on "the sanitary conditions...
UK research may be a world leader but, Brian Salter argues, it urgently needs an injection of cash to stem the decay in its infrastructure As the funding councils launch their reviews of research...
Scientists and the public share doubts about research, but findings in social science are least respected, say Richard Wiseman and Caroline Watt A few weeks ago we conducted a survey of delegates and...
Lloyd Anderson surveys the British Council's efforts to foster partnerships and raise awareness of UK creativity The United Kingdom is highly regarded for education, but it falls into a second...
The hunt for "missing" Martian meteorites has been boosted by a successful mission to put similar terrestrial rock fragments into orbit and then subject them to the rigours of re-entry, writes Steve...
MOSCOW Russian students wishing to study abroad are more than 100 times more likely to gain grants or financing from education and training programmes in the United States as in Britain, university...