Second or third time lucky
Nick Clarke, aged 36, is registered as blind. Actually he is partially sighted. A hereditary degenerative eye condition that appeared when he was five has meant the loss of his direct vision. If he...
Nick Clarke, aged 36, is registered as blind. Actually he is partially sighted. A hereditary degenerative eye condition that appeared when he was five has meant the loss of his direct vision. If he...
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH. Exeter School of Arts and Design. Doctor of Arts: Brian Sanders, illustrator. Royal Engineering College, Manadon. DTech: Hermann Bondi, mathematician, astronomer and former...
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER. Charities. Dr D. Twell, Pounds 79,256 from the Royal Society (research fellowship); Professor G. Dover, Pounds 128,391 from the Wellcome Trust (an experimental analysis of...
DESIRING PRACTICES. "Desiring Practices" is a series of free architecture and design exhibitions being held in London and highlighting the importance of gender roles in new practices in architecture...
UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH. Steven Savage (senior lecturer and director of the Institute of Police and Criminological Studies), professor of criminology; Richard Healey (senior lecturer at Edinburgh...
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE. John Sefton, chairman of British Visqueen and group personnel director for British Polythene Industries, has been appointed to the board of governors. KEELE UNIVERSITY....
If Andy Warhol was right that everyone is famous for 15 minutes, Roger Bannister might legitimately feel cheated. An eminent neurologist, co-author of a standard medical textbook and former Master of...
The Podgoritsa Archaeological Project was the first UK/US/Bulgarian collaboration since the Second World War. It was led by academics from Cardiff and Berkeley and backed by the British Academy. It...
It is a commonplace that revolutions happen when expectations rise and are then unmet. If this is so we may face some surprising frictions in the next few years. At the end of this month Demos will...
I am just back from the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. The first time I was there was in November 1992, on a fact-finding mission on behalf of the French university presidents. The...
More loans, less grants mark sea change in Britain, writes Rupert Wilkinson. The British way of financing university students is getting more like the American one - less reliance on student grants,...
Did David Triesman really tell the TUC conference that Darwin's father scraped a living as a poor country GP? If so he really should take more care to check his facts. Far from being a poor GP, Dr...
When the diploma in art and design was taken over by the Council for National Academic Awards there was a regulation that art colleges/polytechnic faculties of art and design could admit up to 6 per...
Bahram Bekhradnia's speaks of the remarkable achievement of doubling the age-participation rate in higher education "funded entirely at public expense" (THES, September 15). Unfortunately it was not...
The Boyd group has been meeting secretly for two years to find a balance between opposing sides of the debate over vivisection. Earlier this year a group of scientists, academics, animal welfarists...