Out of African America
Academic Richard Majors tells Katrina Wishart about his pioneering work on race relations which started in the United States and is continuing at Manchester University. As soon as Richard Majors...
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The boys from Via Panisperna
A newly discovered diary reveals how Mussolini's race laws killed Italian physics. Paul Bompard reports. In the mid-1930s, Italy was a world leader in nuclear research. A generation of Italian...
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Deconstructive dismissal
Introductory courses in literary theory are failing to inspire students to produce new and exciting readings of texts and a growing number of critics want it abolished for first-year English students...
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Unsatisfying textual encounters
Robert Waugh concludes that literary theory leaves many students with more thinking and reading than they can digest and a huge gap between their critical beliefs and their critical performance. My...
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Grants
University of Edinburgh Research grants Dr B. Sheldon, Pounds 78,343 from NERC (research fellowship); Professor W. Hill, Pounds 30,302 from MRC (supplement); Dr M. Fransman, Pounds 34,292 from the...
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Honorary Degrees
University of East London DSc: James Lovelock, independent scientist, visiting fellow at Green College, Oxford, originator of the Gaia hypothesis; Clement Ramsdale, expert entomologist with the World...
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Appointments
University of Buckingham Robert Taylor, pro-director at the School of Oriental and African Studies, will succeed Richard Luce in January 1997 as vice chancellor. University of Kent at Canterbury...
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Spiritual settlement
Glasgow University apparently believes the only way of settling the pay dispute is to appeal to a higher power. The stop press in its staff newsletter announces that ACAS is set to "to meditate''.
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Oxbridge twist
There is doubtless a good reason for it, but we cannot help being a little bit surprised that the new Cambridge Journal of Economics is to be published by the Oxford University Press.
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Dear Maureen
Believe it or not, there really is at least one departmental secretary at an English university (don't tell anyone, but it's UCE) called Maureen I
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY I have not been to Belgrade for 40 years and now the demonstrations against the declared outcome of municipal elections in Serbia are all over the news. I was expecting to be met at the...
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California scheming
Back in November the affirmative action initiative that ended racial and gender set-asides (where not in conflict with federal law) was approved by California's voters, although by a much smaller...
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This leaflet is good for your legal health
This month I shall be sending a leaflet to hundreds of Association of University Teachers members which will vitally affect their future. You will know it if you see it. It has a red warning triangle...
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Province pays for breakdown
Higher education in Northern Ireland, already heavily underfunded, is paying the price for the collapse of the peace process. The province's two universities and its colleges are suffering in the...
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Stoke college pair sacked
The director of a college rocked by allegations of bullying and financial mismanagement has been sacked. Neil Preston, director of Stoke-on-Trent College, and Helen Chandler, director of marketing,...