Return of the brainy natives
Linda Colley and David Cannadine tell Lucy Hodges why they are coming home. Are we witnessing signs of a reverse brain drain, with academics coming home to an invigorated Blair Britain? The question...
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Appointments
City University. Leslie Hannah, professor and pro director at the London School of Economics and Political Science, will succeed David Kaye in September 1997 as dean of the business school....
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Awards
Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques. Jolyon Howarth, professor of French civilisation at the University of Bath, was awarded the order, established by Napoleon in 1808, in recognition of...
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Chairs
University of Derby. John Hinnells, professor of comparative studies and head of department for the study of religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, has been...
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Honorary degrees
University of Brighton DSc: Chris Boardman, cycling champion, in recognition of his contribution to the sports science research carried out at the university's Chelsea School, Eastbourne. University...
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Readerships
University of Teesside The title of reader has been conferred on Dick Richardson, senior lecturer in international and green politics in the school of social sciences, and Colin Hempstead, school of...
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Rebirth of a nation
Revisions of history tend to be western. Now, in a new film, a Muslim academic is challenging the West's view of Pakistan's founder and of Mountbatten, India's last viceroy. Lucy Hodges reports....
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Eat, drink, man, woman?
The simmering debate about the existence of cannibalism is back on the boil with the imprisonment of a Nobel prize-winning believer, Tim Cornwell reports. Cannibalism is one of the last great taboos...
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How Blair can remedy the right state we're in
Labour must modernise industry and back regional growth if it is not once again to preside over a slump, argues Colin Hay. Now that Labour has won the election, the debate over the party's self-...
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New kid in the House
Newly elected Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb talks to Phil Baty about the transition from Bath University professor to House of Commons greenhorn. Steve Webb is approaching his third week as an MP...
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The debt owed to Aberfan
An Oxford University professor claims that the Aberfan Disaster Fund was bullied out of Pounds 150,000 and that the present Government should make amends. Julia Hinde reports. The cemetery and the...
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Elixirs of life
In 1990 the cost to Britain of Alzheimer's disease was estimated at up to Pounds 3 billion a year. There is no reversing this cruel illness, which robs sufferers, literally, of their minds; the...
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Improved table manners
All universities are equal, but some are more equal than others, as George Orwell might well have said. When The Times first imported the idea of league tables designed to inform the public on the...
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The age of the oldie
If you care enough, you can keep a vintage car going indefinitely. When it stops, you strip it down, fix any broken parts, or fabricate new ones. But the human body, alas, is not like that. It cannot...
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Fellowships
Institution of Electrical Engineers. Honorary fellows of the institution: James Porteous, chairman and chief executive of Yorkshire Electricity Group (1990-92), vice president of IEE (1992-93),...