Appointments
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY John Annette, professor and head of the university's school of history and politics, has been appointed chair of Middlesex University Press. WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA...
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A sparkling career
A recent memorial service for crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot. Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize for science, was attended by the great and the good. Olga Wojtas traces the life...
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Scientific fraud squad call
The drug industry is calling for independent investigation into allegations of scientific fraud. Claims that medical and scientific research need policing were made by ex-editor of the British...
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Symbolic victory
Andrew Robinson reveals how the secrets of the ancient Maya are being uncovered as Linda Schele and her colleagues learn to decipher the first American writing system. "The American chronicle does...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a story about explosions and Manhattan: "The preeminent transnational community in our culture is science. With the release of nuclear energy in the first half of...
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Speaking Volumes: The Singer of Tales
Ruth Finnegan on Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales . When I arrived in Oxford my tutor told me to read my classical texts aloud. Being literal-minded, I took her advice. And having read out all those...
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The value of Acas conciliation
I would like to make it clear where this union stands in relation to the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Natfhe has sought the advice and assistance of Acas on numerous occasions and...
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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Noble image of a learning society
If all the oratory about the importance of education means anything, it is surely that this country badly needs to become a learning society. What exactly a learning society might be gives fertile...
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Balancing the books
Universities are losing their ivory-tower image, transformed by what one Cambridge University administrator calls "a new breed of academic". Vice chancellors are now regarded as high-flying chief...
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Students put peace politics first
University students have historically played an active role in politics, often in the vanguard of the movement for change. For students at Birzeit University on the West Bank, politics, in the shape...
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New strings for old craft
The Chinese government recently established a centre for the production of European classical string instruments in Beijing. Its director learned the craft of making violins, violas, cellos and...
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Excellent marks for S. Africans
Forty South African scientists have received an "A" rating as world leaders in their fields. For the first time one of them, Christina Mynhardt of the distance-learning University of South Africa, is...
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Faraday base seeks buyer
The British Antarctic Survey has given the Ukrainian government until the end of April to decide whether it wants to take over the Faraday base in Graham Land. It has told the Ukrainians that if a...
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Fort Hare forges Australian links
Two Australian universities last week signed co-operative agreements with a South African tertiary institution in what is being hailed as the beginning of a new stage in relations between the two...