Probable cause?
Should juries get the help of probability theory to guide them in complex trials involving quantitative scientific evidence? David Balding considers the case for and against A suspect is linked to a...
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Edible ecriture
We need to eat to live, but some also live to write. Terry Eagleton explains why the two acts are inexorably intertwined The link between eating and writing has a venerable pedigree. Francis Bacon...
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More trouble than it's worth
Martin Trow explains why he thinks the Dearing report is part of the problem facing higher education and not the solution Far from being a solution to the problems of British higher education, the...
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Awards
Royal Society of Chemistry The Harrison Memorial Prize has been awarded to Helen Fielding, a lecturer in the department of chemistry at King's College, London, for her contribution to the dynamics of...
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Honorary degrees
Brunel University DSc: Peter Williams, executive chairman of Oxford Instruments plc, former lecturer at Imperial College. DSocSci: Clare Spottiswode, director general of Gas Supply, former chairman...
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Appointments
University of Sunderland David Puttnam, film maker, life peer, has been appointed chancellor of the university. Euopean Society of Human Reproduction and Embyology Lynn Fraser, professor of...
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An unbroken century of eclectic commitment
UCL established Britain's first psychology department 100 years ago, but Marya Burgess says not everything has changed since then. This week University College London celebrates the centenary of its...
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Trapped in a time warp
Not coming to terms with the freedoms of the 1960s has cost the Tories dearly, argues Richard Cockett In July 1967, an ambitious young television producer called John Birt staged one of the more...
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Consumers on the critical list
The rise of the articulate consumer could spell trouble for the medical profession, argue Simon Williams and Michael Calnan No television schedule is complete without its medical drama. Yet this...
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Land of dope and glory
The government is keen to make an impact in two vital areas of public health. Chris Johnston reports on the effectiveness of drugs legislation Much has changed in Britain since 1971, but one thing...
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Why we're Blighty glad
Happy days are here again -in fact they've never been away. Raj Persaud explains why the British are contented with their lot We are less happy now than we were in the past, despite being wealthier....
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Breaking the industrial mould
INFORMATION AND ORGANISATION: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE THEORY OF THE FIRM. By Mark Casson. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 314pp, Pounds 40.00. - ISBN 0 19 829232 5. This is an ambitious book. Mark Casson's...
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Cash call for FE growth
IAN McCALMAN, president of the Educational Institute of Scotland, has called for the proposed expansion of further education to be matched by an injection of cash. Mr McCalman, speaking this week to...
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Fellowships
National Humanities Center, North Carolina Robert Segal, reader in theory of religion at the University of Lancaster, has been awarded a fellowship. The Leverhulme Trust Fellowships have been awarded...
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Promotions
University of Durham Promoted to readerships: former senior lecturers: Gerald Brooke, chemistry; Robert Drewett, psychology; Anne Campbell, psychology; Max Paddison, music. Former lecturers: Robert...