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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Allegations of nepotism and bullying against Anglia Polytechnic business school head Hugh Jenkins have no foundation, the board of governors' audit and compliance committee has ruled. John Watts,...