Chairs
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE Alan Norrie, senior lecturer at the school of law, University of Warwick, has been appointed to the Drapers' chair of law. Katherine O'Donovan, professor of family...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF HULL Alan Pugh, professor of electronic engineering, has been appointed to serve on Nato's scientific and environmental affairs division's collaborative research grants programme....
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Dusk heralds the night
Writer Taslima Nasreen, who fled Bangladesh for the West after fundamentalists threatened to put her to death for her views on the Koran, asks if we are returning to an age of barbarism. We hear, we...
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A known subversive
Five and a half years ago, the wife of an Oxford academic was deemed such a threat to the military government of Burma that it placed her under house arrest. Today the world will discover if it feels...
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Cure at a cost
It is five years since the Government launched its National Health Service reforms. These have had an impact not only on patient care, but also on academic medicine.Today, we highlight the pressures...
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LSE head 'not quitting'
John Ashworth, director of the London School of Economics, says he has not ruled out a second term of office if it were offered to him. Dr Ashworth's six-year fixed term appointment ends in September...
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FE degree funding future in doubt
Future payments to further education colleges providing degree and sub-degree level courses is under review by the Higher Education Funding Council which next week publishes a report giving the...
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False memory exists, say psychologists
Many British psychologists accept the possibility of false memories, according to a survey by the British Psychological Society. Of 810 chartered psychologists responding, two-thirds accepted the...
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On the ball
(Photograph) - Gloucester went public on Monday with its University for Gloucester Project, under which a university would be built on the city's disused quayside. Consultant Sir Christopher Ball (...
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Site of debate
The World Archaeology Congress-III began in extraordinary circumstances in New Delhi and ended in uproar. Jonathan Sawday was there "Shantih, Shantih, Shantih'' -- those familiar with Vedic...
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Mrs T =MC2
Simon Targett reports on the link between creativity and leadership. Einstein and Thatcher. Two names to conjure with, for sure. But in the same breath? That is what Harvard professor Howard Gardner...
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Sino-Russian boarders
A 'Chinese peaceful expansion' has been taking place in south-east Russia. Zhores A. Medvedev looks at the four options under consideration to ensure the district does not become a Chinese republic...
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Total recall?
John Morton argues that theories which claim to recover lost memories are far from infallible When we, a group of academics and clinicians, were asked by the British Psychological Society to produce...
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A 'pornographer' of science
The research grants have dried up, so genetics professor Steve Jones is now writing and broadcasting about science as well as practising it. Kam Patel reports With much of his year already booked up...
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Why academics strike
The story of Nigerian universities in the 1990s is the story of a permanent crisis. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, with about 10,000 members committed to a struggle to restore a lifeline...