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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, marks the Labour conference with the only book by a politician who would have been...
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Honorary degrees
University of Exeter DD: Desmond Tutu, archbishop, prominent anti-apartheid campaigner, chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. DLitt: Bridget Riley, artist; Joyce...
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Appointments
The Wellcome Trust Mike Dexter, (above) director of the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester, will succeed Bridget Ogilvie as director on her retirement next year. University of...
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Look who's over here
Over a fifth of postgraduates are overseas students. Mark Nye looks at the attractions of studying in the United Kingdom THE SCRAMBLE for a university place for Michaelmas entry is in full swing but...
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No curtain to raise
Kam Patel unearths the powerful interests that coalesced to deprive Cardiff of Zaha Hadid's award-winning opera house. To this day, the architect Zaha Hadid is at a loss to know why the Millennium...
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Nuclear family meltdown?
Alison Utley reports on new research which claims that same-sex relationships are reordering the British household. What do today's young people really want out of life? New sociological research...
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Endless points of order
The party conference season opens this year to the sound of organisational shuffling rather than ideological clashing. Richard Cockett reports as Blair prepares to rid Labour of the last rituals of...
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Swanning around on the river
Julia Hinde meets the warden of the Queen's swans, Christopher Perrins Swanning around on the river. The Queen's swan warden is rather looking forward to the next week. Surrounded by publishers'...
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Unnaturally concerned
As the list of genetically modified foods expands, so the level of consumer anxiety burgeons. Simon Midgley looks at the causes of public concern. As the list of genetically modified foods expands,...
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Britain's wards of shame
David Pilgrim argues that our scandal-hit maximum security hospitals are unreformable, expensive Victorian relics that should be closed. Anonymous threats of death and sexual violence are to be...
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Ghostbuster came to life with studious look at death
Harriet Swain, continuing our series on young researchers, talks to parapsychologist Tony Lawrence. A little more than ten years ago, when psychology lecturer Tony Lawrence was 15, he went to see the...
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Correction
There was a misprint in Andrea Dworkin's review of Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John, which appeared on September 12. The sentence "Cline's biography is conceptually sophisticated and conveys the...
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The expansion of higher education in the United Kingdom
BRITAIN'S UNIVERSITIES Official figures for 180 institutions in the UK are collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, including the Open University but excluding the private University of...
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Fellowships
London Business School Honorary fellows: James Blyth, chief executive of The Boots Company plc, life peer, chairman of the prime minister's advisory panel on the Citizen's Charter; Majorie Scardino,...