Mr Lightman also expressed concern that public sector pay rises would be capped at 1% for two years, saying this would make it difficult to attract high calibre candidates into teaching.
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Sir Mark Walport, the director of Wellcome Trust, said that his organisation is in the final stages of launching a high calibre scientific journal called eLife that would compete directly with top-tier publications such as Nature and Science, seen by scientists as the premier locations for publishing.
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Attracting skilled, high-calibre teachers into the early years has been shown to have a lasting impact.
The French forces neutralised around 340 artillery shells and high-calibre rockets found stashed under acacia trees in ravines, it reports.
Their postbag, they claim, is bulging with applications from high-calibre people who want to be on the board of the regional agency when it starts work in 1999.
Because legal projects tend to require small, high-calibre teams, and because of those strict conflict-of-interest rules, even the biggest law firms are tiny in comparison with their accounting cousins.
Filling the facilities with high-calibre staff is another challenge.
One reason may be a lack of high-calibre people.
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Officers say scammers are making thousands of dollars a week from wire transfers to the island, and that cash is now being used to buy expensive high-calibre weapons that are helping to fuel the violence that has seen more than 1, 200 people killed since the start of the year.
While the calibre of civil servants was "generally very high", the former BP boss said there was a lack of staff with commercial skills or expertise in handling major projects.
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