CLRC takes stake in high-tech firm
Ceravision, a new company aiming to produce affordable large, flat-panel display screens, is linking up in a business partnership with the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils...
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Don't come a cropper, reap those rewards
Olga Wojtas describes how a unique blend of teaching, research and consultancy makes the Scottish Agricultural College indispensable to farmers. The Scottish Agricultural College is one of the United...
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Nerve centre for combined ops
Claire Sanders visits a new interdisciplinary neuroscience centre that aims to advance our minimal understanding of the brain. Researchers at the Institute of Psychiatry's new neuroscience centre are...
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The rise of the adviser
Consultancy is a growing area for academics. Ayala Ochert reports. These days, it seems, everyone is a consultant. Over the past decade, the word has gone through a proliferation of meanings - a...
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Botanists plan inter-oral work
David Jobbins reveals a project to update and expand electronically a seminal work on European flora. A new taxonomy of European and Mediterranean plants is being planned by botanists across Europe....
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History man from Bologna
A chance meeting in an archive led David Ellwood to a career in a country with a 'tremendous respect for learning'. Paul Bompard reports. David Ellwood, 51, is associate professor of contemporary...
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'Publish and be damned if I pay'
Your manuscript has finally been accepted by a top journal. The proofs are on your desk - as is a bill for $600. Natasha Loder looks at page charges The issue of journals charging to publish research...
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Patients - a real virtue in biomedical innovation
Government science policies focus on developing links with industry but that is not the only place fruits of academic research can be applied. Jenny Gristock reports
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Trust to your tacit knowledge
A guide to girding your intellect on the long research road, faced with the mindset of the 'institutionalised dominant', by Pete Mann So you're contributing through your research to the stock of...
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Students paid after 'nepotism' inquiry
Students have been compensated Pounds 100 each for "unacceptable mismanagement" following unrest at Anglia Polytechnic University's Business School. The students at Anglia Business School, sitting a...
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Top table to sickbed
Equally impressive dedication was displayed last week by Keele University political scientist John Horton in attaining his stated aim (Don's Diary, THES, April 10) of getting off top table at the...
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Parochial parting
Aberdeenshire's preoccupation with all things local is typified by the alleged headline in the region's newspaper, The Press & Journal, when the Titanic sank: "Northeast man drowns at sea.''...
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Funding-by-results plan
College funding should be linked to inspection results, the Further Education Funding Council has agreed. The move, "to reward excellence and encourage improvements", forms part of a Quality...
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Coup de grass
There's nothing like personal experience to add that edge of veracity to a textbook, but few authors can draw on an inspiration quite so outlandish as Peter Ogrodnik, whose Fundamental Engineering...
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Union action man
Alumnus to be proud of no 169 also faces a rest from his favourite adrenaline inducer. Lembit Opik MP, Liberal Democrat spokesman on young people, spent an unpleasant time over Easter weekend...