A desire to put pen to papyrus
Rationality in Greek Thought
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Net failings that drive the desire to be digital
International Journal on Digital Libraries
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Magnificent seven served with relish on a platter
Essential Classics in Science
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a South African traitor: "I'm burned out and starving to death, so I'm just...
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Quotes
All the above quotes are taken from a THES survey of proportions of private vs. state-educated students at individual Oxbridge colleges 'We do not and, I think, would not wish to, discriminate for or...
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Appointments
Universities and Colleges Employers Association Peter Humphreys, former personnel director of the National Rivers Authority and Stanton plc, fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development, has...
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Chairs
Anglia Polytechnic University. Tony Hall, head of the design guidance research unit, has been appointed to a research chair in town planning. University of Sussex The following have been promoted to...
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Grants
Lancaster University Charities Professor P. Ayres and Dr. S. Andrew, Pounds 83,000 from North West Cancer Research Fund (flow cytometer). Research contracts Dr D. Worthington, Pounds 38,430 from...
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Honorary degrees
University of Sunderland DBA: Llew Aviss, personnel director at Siemens Microelectronics Ltd, president of the Regional Chamber of Commerce, board member of Northern Development Company, director of...
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Class apartheid
Britain's top universities are dominated by a supergroup of students from private or grammar schools and there is not much that new Labour can do about it, argues Andrew Adonis One country, two...
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The cosmic godfather
About to turn 80, Arthur C. Clarke talks to Andrew Robinson about his life as the great communicator of science, his latest predictions, and life in Sri Lanka The author-scientist Arthur C. Clarke's...
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Lunatic ideas and the truth about asylums
Foucault said that madhouses in the 18th and 19th centuries were nothing more than prisons for social nuisances, but he was wrong. They were also hospitals where attempts were made to cure the...
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J'accuse: a history
Rubbishing intellectuals is as much a well-loved pastime in France as elsewhere and Impostures Intellectuelles has earned Sokal and Bricmont vast media coverage. Targeting the tendency of French...
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In through the backdoor
Heidi Mirza tells Julia Hinde that racism lives and equality is a myth, but that black girls are beating the system Heidi Mirza, reader in sociology at South Bank University, is unusual in the...
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Awards
Pilkington Prize The 1997 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching were presented to: Martin Cowley, department of engineering; Lorraine Gelsthorpe, institute of criminology; Robin Hiley,...