Lost window of opportunity
Laboratory Earth
Laboratory Earth
Employability and career success are what everybody expects from higher education. Tony Watts outlines the role university careers services have to play. The Dearing report seems likely to put...
War of the World
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
CONCEPTS. Where cognitive science went wrong. By Jerry A. Fodor. 174pp. Oxford University Press. Pounds 30 (paperback, Pounds 12.99). - 0 19 823637 9. Fodor's theory of mind and its problems With no...
University of Reading Research grants Professor B. Hoskins, Drs P. Valdes and M. Blackburn, Pounds 65,907 from the NERC (development and use of an intermediate GCM); Dr A. Parker and Professor B....
University of Strathclyde. Charities Dr I. Uchegbu, Pounds 49,736 from Wellcome Trust (the development of novel multi-component non-ionic surfactant vesicles (niosomes) for the controlled delivery of...
Five centuries ago, legend has it, a mystic stood on a sacred mountain in Central America and predicted an academic centre for peace would be built there one day. In December 1980, this dream was...
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. European Professor T. J. T. Whittaker in collaboration with Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal, Pounds 430,000 from European Commission (Islay European shoreline wave...
Think of it as a small but worthwhile "new blood" scheme for British universities: all of a sudden UEA needs a dean of biology, Essex needs a head of public relations and Bath is short of a professor...
UMIST. Research councils: Dr A D Whetton, Pounds 190,2 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (cellular signalling events associated with haemopoietic stem cell...
As a book and university league table today reveal the extent of discrimination against women academics, we focus on two new professors and their fight for recognition - Gillian Morriss-Kay (below...
Computer Security - Computer Security Management
CARDIFF INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. European funds. T. Dakin, Pounds 820,000 from the European Union (LINES, project using Internet to improve communications between college databases throughout...
As tens of thousands of students in England receive their A-level results this week, the annual scramble for university places for those who miss their grades, known as clearing, begins. After last...