Editor calls for a tobacco-funding debate
A national debate is needed on the wider implications of the row over Nottingham University's acceptance of tobacco industry money, according to Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal...
A national debate is needed on the wider implications of the row over Nottingham University's acceptance of tobacco industry money, according to Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal...
MPs warn on science departments The Government must seize more control over universities to stop them closing science, technology, engineering and mathematics departments, MPs have demanded. In the...
Financial Times Oxford University is to open the world's first internet institute in an effort to put Britain at the centre of global e-research after Dame Steve Shirley, founder of FI Group and one...
Financial Times The Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and the Queen's School of Business in Kingston, Ontario, are optimistic that their planned alliance will bear fruit. Madrid's...
Rescue for top-rated staff only A government promise to protect nationally important but vulnerable academic subjects may extend only to the top research-intensive university departments, The Times...
On the centenary of Nietzsche's death, Duncan Large and Richard Smith discuss his place in contemporary debate and ask how a Nietzschean campus might function. The post-structuralist Nietzsche vogue...
THE results of one in every hundred clinical medical studies may be faked, it is estimated. This means that 30 studies, which could influence the drugs and medical treatments of tomorrow, may be in...
Scot college numbers grow Almost 30 per cent of Scottish higher education students are taking courses in further education colleges, says the Scottish Executive. Student numbers in higher education...
Teachers still needed in e-learning world E-learning will change the role and skills of teachers but not eliminate them altogether, according to an Institute for Employment Studies report published...
Scientific papers need not be turgid. Geoff Watts gives a few tips on writing a page-turner that just might win you a reputation Most scientific papers are less than exciting. Along with computer...
Scientific papers need not be turgid. Geoff Watts gives a few tips on writing a page-turner that just might win you a reputation. Most scientific papers are less than exciting. Along with computer...
People are living longer, and they want to learn. Phil Baty looks at the boom in Third Age education Over the next 30 years, the number of pensioners in the United Kingdom will increase by more than...
KNIGHTS: George Alberti, president of the Royal College of Physicians, for services to diabetic medicine; John Beringer, lately chairman, Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, for...