Expert Comment
Battle Looms Over European Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research
Alex Smith, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology explores both sides of the debate surrounding continued support of stem cell research and calls for a re-commitment to democratised science.
Blackberrys and Beyond: Technology and Global Higher Education - Vice Chancellor Professor Nigel Thrift
"It is interesting to see how work and social habits in the university are changing as the mobile phone and the other diverse and relatively inexpensive instruments of mobile telecommunication become an indispensable adjunct to life."
Call for industry bank to fix UK economy - Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya
As the UK attempts to re-balance its economy away from financial services, questions are being raised over how to encourage growth in British manufacturing. Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya, director of the Warwick Manufacturing Group and long-serving adviser to the UK government on industrial matters, tells the FT's Peter Marsh that the time is ripe for the creation of an industry bank - a financial institution solely focused on the country's manufacturing sector.