Stimulating technology transfer is a priority in Cardiff. The city's university and its sister institution, the University of Wales College of Medicine, have between them created 15 high-technology...
The culture clash between academic and commercialisation staff, rife in North America, has erupted at Glasgow University. Glasgow has aggressively boosted commercialisation in recent years. In July,...
Strathclyde University yesterday unveiled its multimillion-pound Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde, writes Olga Wojtas. It aims to promote entrepreneurship among staff, students and...
Is US higher education heading for a lesson in the emptiness of campaign pledges? asks Martin Trow One important fact about the United States presidential campaign is that both candidates - and the...
Last February in a speech at the University of Greenwich, education secretary David Blunkett caused a stir with two new policies: the e-university and the foundation degree. The speech came as Mr...
We were sorry to read in your Whistleblowers column ( THES , October 13) of Penelope Pugh's experience when she sat her Open University exam at the British Council offices in Buenos Aires. However,...
Your Whistleblowers column may give the impression that the OU provides poor service to its 8,000 disabled students and the 4,500 students who choose to take their exams overseas or in special...
As UK signatory to the Bologna Declaration on Higher Education, I was surprised to see an article, "Degree is short of European standard", ( THES , October 20) implying we do not...
The position adopted by the British government in favour of the cloning of staminal cells for therapeutic purposes is one I wholly endorse ("Catholic Church vs Saviour of Childless"...
I wish to comment on David Petrie's response to coverage of the European ombudsman's decision (Letters, THES , October 13). Mr Petrie is mistaken in claiming that the ombudsman's only means of...
The delayed announcement of the second and third years of the comprehensive spending review is sending shudders of apprehension through higher education. I know ministers in the Department for...
Chancellor Gordon Brown could help higher education in his autumn pre-budget statement next Tuesday and ease industrial tensions. First, he could say something about years two and three of the...
I was disappointed that Lord Butler in his review of John Campbell's book on Margaret Thatcher thought the sub-title,"The Grocer's Daughter" was belittling ("The road from...
Grocers did not sell "fruit and veg". Bully beef was more their thing. I grew up behind a greengrocer's and do not want guilt by association. Ian McNay School of post-compulsory...
Thanks to THES for investigating some of the negative results of the anti-GM campaign. Could we see on prime-time television the well-established benefits of GM to the UK public (human insulin, beers...