New power generation
A lightweight electricity generator developed by Imperial College engineers is set torevolutionise industry. Kam Patel reports A company formed on the back of revolutionary lightweight electricity...
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Year of the dragon
Welsh centres of expertise are linking research innovators with businesses. Iola Smith reports on an initiative that is already attracting interest from abroad Europe lags behind the US and Japan in...
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Swansea success story
A Swansea success is Osprey Metals. It began 25 years ago when three of the university'smetallurgy students came up with anew way of forming metal. They found that by atomising molten metal into a...
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Ogilvie slams civil servants
The UK research councils are no longer respected by their customers, a leading medical researcher and former head of the Wellcome Trust told the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee this...
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Cash for commercial break
Loughborough University has been awarded Pounds 201,000 by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation to fund staff who wish to develop new technology for commercial use. The cash will be used to free them...
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Something's brewing
An agro-industrial bio-technology centre is to be set up in Esbjerg, on the west coast of Jutland, by the University of South Denmark and Aalborg University. Although the centre will carry out basic...
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Norway to be weighed up
Fundamental biological subjects such as bio-technology and bio-chemistry at Norway's universities, university colleges and research institutes are to be evaluated for the first time since 1988. Three...
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China's high-tech institute
China has set up a new research institute to fuel the country's growing high-technology engineering sector. The institute, named Beijing University Engineering Research Institute, is a result of...
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Engineering doctors
Natasha Loder reports on an engineering qualification that could land its graduates fat wage packets in heavy industry One of the largest research councils - the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
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Change to admission system still on table
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is pressing on with proposals for a post-qualification admissions system in the face of widespread opposition from schools, colleges and universities...
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Poll backs Mexican fee strikers
Public support for free state education from pre-school to university level is almost universal, according to an unofficial poll carried out by students at Mexico's National Autonomous University (...
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Tuition fees no deterrent?
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals believes the latest application figures may show tuition fees are not deterring potential students. Coshep says the most recent figures from the...
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On the move
Keith Gull, professor of molecular biology at the University of Manchester; John Padfield, chief executive of Chiroscience Group; and Margaret Stanley, reader of epithelial biology at the University...
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In the news
John Lawton was appointed chief executive of the Natural Sciences Research Council this week, taking up the post on October 1. Professor Lawton, 55, is currently director of the NSRC's centre for...
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Don's Diary
Monday. I drive to Nottingham to pick up Vesna who is acting as interpreter for our research with refugees from Bosnia-Herzegovina. The research involves conducting life story interviews, which are...