Queen's Birthday Honours
Knights Bachelor Jack Edward Baldwin, Waynflete professor of chemistry, University of Oxford (for services to organic chemistry); Nicholas Dominic Cadbury, Cadbury Schweppes plc (for services to the...
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Appointments
Lincoln Theological Institute Martyn Percy, former chaplain of Christ's College Cambridge, has been appointed director of the newly established institute for the study of religion and society in...
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Chronicler of deaths foretold
Director of the Wiener Library and eminent Jewish academic David Cesarani talks to Huw Richards about the importance of history to his race. At a library table a student pursuing her research is bent...
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A Sino things to come?
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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It's now time to go fourth and multiply
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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One country, two systems, six views
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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Red tide induces navel gazing
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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On the scent of Fragrant Harbour's pungent history
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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The eye on the tiger
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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Art expert takes sour view of Royal Holloway
A FINE art expert from the BBC's Antiques Roadshow is suing a University of London college, claiming more than Pounds 200,000 in damages relating to alleged unpaid commission for the sale of a...
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Brian Wilson gets Gaelic
Brian Wilson, the Scottish Office minister for education and industry, has been given special responsibility for Gaelic in a pioneering Government initiative. Mr Wilson has championed Gaelic...
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Orlando Figes
In the High Court last week, The THES apologised to the author and historian Orlando Figes over an article published on May 2, "Plagiarise. . . only be sure to call it research." The article referred...
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Outrage over ALF squeeze
Many of England's most successful further education colleges, already reeling after last week's college funding allocations, are facing further cuts as the deadline was set this week to create a...
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Latest FEFC figures on college deficits
The latest FEFC figures show that the number of colleges with an operating deficit had increased to 5 compared with 204 in 1994 and 263 in 1995. Eighty colleges had accumulated deficits at July 1996...
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Pay for promises Labour is told
HIGHER education's biggest trade union Unison has questioned the Government's ability to deliver more and better further education and training. Rodney Bickerstaffe, general secretary of Unison,...