Coventry takes lead
Coventry University is to lead a Pounds 800,000 project aimed at helping development of electronic guidance and navigation systems for cars and trucks. Funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences...
Search
-
-
Leeds opens Pounds 4m state of the art biomolecular centre
A NEW Pounds 4 million centre for research in biomolecular sciences at the University of Leeds, which opened last week, brings together for the first time the high-technology equipment needed for...
-
Scots arrive in enterprise zone
Scotland's first Technology Enterprise Show, aimed at helping academics commercialise their research, had a distinct feel of the Tardis to it. A small entrance within Heriot-Watt University's...
-
Scientists venture into capitalists' terrain
Manchester University biologists have raised Pounds 20 million and formed a company to exploit their research. Kam Patel reports Within the next three months entrepreneurial biologists at Manchester...
-
A biased court with no appeal
The viva oral exam is an unfair way to assess a thesis, argues Ewan Gillon One of the hardest tasks facing a PhD supervisor is assisting a student to prepare for their viva examination. The doctoral...
-
Only the rich and gifted need apply
Low pay and the spiralling cost of first degrees means that life for PhD students is tough and is getting tougher despite some funders' efforts to abolish postgraduate poverty by paying salaries The...
-
Wellcome to the ivy league
Low pay and the spiralling cost of first degrees means that life for PhD students is tough and is getting tougher despite some funders' efforts to abolish postgraduate poverty by paying salaries The...
-
Civil service's loss becomes lake's gain
The University of Greenwich's Natural Resources Institute, once a an official state agency, is leading efforts to revive one of Africa's natural wonders, reports David Jobbins Lake Tanganyika is one...
-
Study your opportunities, they may not be to your liking
Jobs for the new millennium:Ayala Ochert continues our series with a hard look at the prospects for a research career After a PhD, what could be more logical than the progression to postdoctoral...
-
How to become a science plagiarist
A FIELD GUIDE FOR SCIENCE WRITERS. Edited by Deborah Blume and Mary Knudson. Oxford University Press, 287pp, Pounds 18.99. ISBN 0 19 510068 9 Most of us learn about science at second or third hand,...
-
Millennial tension on the network
BITS OF POWER: Issues in Global Access to Scientific Data. National Research Council (US), 235pp. Pounds 36.95 - 0 309 05635 7 The traditional paper-based way of communicating scientific research has...
-
Bill delay causes fee chaos
THE government has admitted that delays in the House of Lords to the Teaching and Higher Education Bill could stop it being implemented in time for next academic year. The admission came in a letter...
-
Lack of talented candidates threatens research
DEBT is deterring graduates from taking PhDs. Heads of research councils say the situation will worsen as tuition fees and higher loans are introduced this autumn. They are meeting to discuss ways of...
-
Oxbridge to keep college fee
OXFORD and Cambridge universities will keep the college fee next year because there is not enough time left to scrap it. The two universities have been told the fee will remain in 1998-99 for...
-
OU strains under cuts strategy
The Open University will have shed 200 staff and cut its student intake by 5,000 before the end of this year, according to accounts sent to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. In the...