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  1. Appointments

    European Science Foundation Enric Banda, professor and former Spanish secretary of state for universities and research, will succeed Peter Fricker as secretary general in June 1998. University of...

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  2. Fellowships

    The Royal Society Fellows Christopher Bate, reader in the department of zoology, University of Cambridge; John Brady, BP professor of information engineering in the University of Oxford; Michael...

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  3. Honorary degrees

    University of East Anglia LittD: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, vice chancellor of the university since 1995; John Fowles, author of The Magus and The Collector who has lectured on several occasions in the...

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  4. Swampy's smart set

    The battles being waged by the new wave of green warriors, such as Swampy, are reflected in the rise on campus of environmental literary criticism, or ecocriticism. But as Jennifer Wallace discovers...

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  5. Braising standards

    In the second of our series on food, Prue Leith complains about the absence of cooking in education and calls on teachers and academics to embrace this 'fine art' It is now almost impossible for a...

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  6. The last gasps of a dead tongue

    Christie Davies argues that as the Welsh language will and must die out, encouraging people to learn it is a pointless exercise The study of Welsh is compulsory in all schools in Wales. In Gwynedd...

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  8. Forbidden melodies

    In the first of a series of visits to academics' rooms, Kate Worsley is admitted to ethnomusicologist John Baily's shrine to the Afghan music banned by the Taliban Cross-legged, in jeans and stocking...

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  9. Dog gains 86,000 years despite lack of bones

    Gene research suggests tamed dogs have existed for more than 100,000 years. Tim Cornwell spoke to the researchers and their critics Modern man is about 100,000 years old, archaeologists say. But...

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  10. History's bigger picture

    This week's Anglo-American historians' conference in London aims to take on the world. Alan Mcafarlane charts its trends It is always worth looking at the development of theoretical systems from the...

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  11. History's bigger picture

    This week's Anglo-American historians' conference in London aims to take on the world. Harriet Swain looks at the renewed interest in global history They think big at Anglo-American history...

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  12. Prizes

    Menerva Educational Trust Essay Competition The trust, which aims to advance society's knowledge of women's potential for achievement in all areas of life, has announced Paula Gould as the 1997...

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  13. It's better to travel

    With the appointment last week of Anne Campbell as John Battle's parliamentary private secretary, speculation is mounting as to who will chair the House of Commons select committee on science and...

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  14. Standing up to God

    The Australian academic who took on a church elder in a costly court battle over a Turkish rock formation which the latter claimed contained Noah's Ark has been made an honorary fellow of the...

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  15. Human resourcing

    With more than 100 redundancies in the last academic year, a vote of no confidence in the vice chancellor and a deficit of nearly Pounds 1.5 million, staff at Luton University need cheering up. And...

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