Council vacancies
Fancy a taste of power and influence in the world of British research funding? The Office of Science and Technology is seeking applications for a number of vacancies for part-time members of the...
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Patent advance
Anyone who wants to file a patent can now make a start digitally. The Patent Office has put the application form on the World Wide Web at www.patent.gov.uk. British law, however, means that the rest...
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Nottingham first
Research awards to Nottingham University have topped Pounds 50 million for the first time. For 1997-98 university research income totalled Pounds 50.3 million, an increase of more than Pounds 4...
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UK competitiveness
The Engineering and Physical Research Council has set out its competitive vision for the United Kingdom's processing industry in Strategic Framework. The framework describes how partnerships between...
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Cutting Edge
Development technology integrates learning and production, lets students do something outside themselves and calls for ingenuity in getting to the field It is always hard to balance home and the...
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`This is a time for broad thinking'
The Economic and Social Research Council has identified nine key themes to guide it into the next millennium. Kam Patel reports Nine research themes, ranging from the behaviour of the national and...
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The gap between the real world and the words
Since the concordat for career management of contract research staff was introduced, its implementation has been patchy. At Imperial College two contract researchers are taking the struggle to the...
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Rotation cuts frustration
The Wellcome Trust's project to train postgrads for a year in different labs is being expanded. Olga Wojtas reports on how it has taken off at Glasgow University, now one of the premier research...
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Cold wind blows on growth hope
The looming recession, formally acknowledged by ministers for the first time this week, could scupper plans to raise higher education funding, economists and vice-chancellors have warned. The...
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Corruption inquiry hits SA university
An inquiry is under way into unrest, labour practices and allegations of corruption at the University of the North, Turfloop. It is the fourth South African higher education institution to be probed...
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Private sector wins case for public fees
A private college in Dublin has won an important High Court case establishing its right to run publicly funded degree courses in computer science. Last year Griffith College was invited to tender for...
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Refugees welcomed with grant
Academics who have fled persecution or the ravages of war could find a lifeline in Canada if the University of Toronto raises the cash for refugee fellowships. The fund will provide invited...
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Albanian students arrested
Inter-ethnic fighting in Kosovo and disturbances in Albania have had a knock-on effect in Macedonia, where ethnic Albanians make up more than 20 per cent of the population. There have been numerous...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... Booker prize judge Valentine Cunningham asked whether such competitions as the Booker, which blend writing, money and public relations, add anything to our academic study of...
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Hylife on the electronic frontier
Tony Durham sorts clumps from hybrids in phase three of eLib The Electronic Libraries research programme, launched after the 1993 Follett report, is now in its third phase with 30 projects active at...