Awards
University of Wales, Cardiff Adrian Thomas, head of the department of music, was awarded the Order of Merit for Polish Culture in Warsaw in recognition of his contribution to Polish music through...
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Chairs
Central St Martins College of Art and Design Pamela Howard, scenographer and artistic director of the masters scenography courses in London, Utrecht, Prague and Helsinki; Peter Docherty, dance...
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Grants
University of Edinburgh - Charities Professor J. Phillips, Pounds 429,054 from the Wellcome Trust (senior research fellowship to Dr Sari Pennings - dynamics of chromatin in gene regulation);...
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Don's diary
Monday. Playwright Edward Bond called to find out how the Friday and Saturday performances of his play Coffee were received in Cardiff. Both nights saw near-capacity audiences. Edward is keen to see...
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Honorary degrees
University of Bath Doctor of Arts: Nick Park, director at Aardman Animations Limited and creator of the Wallace and Gromit characters. Thames Valley University An honorary professorship was awarded...
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So this is Christmas, and what shall we read that we haven't read already?
What do you give the academic who has to read more in a year than most people do in a decade? Why, a book of course. Eight heavy-weights dragged themselves away from their sherry parties to whisper...
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Don's Diary
THE WEEK began with a day spent in Warwick, preparing for what seems increasingly like an exercise in futility: preparatory meetings for a teaching quality assessment visit the following week that...
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All quiet on Serbian front pages
BELGRADE media loyal to the Serbian government ignored the largest demonstrations in the country's recent history last week. While most students were actively supporting the the protests, state-owned...
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Paymaster calls the wrong pension tune
IT WAS once said of Sir Keith Joseph that he not only had the capacity to shoot himself in the foot but, worse still, he could hit his left foot while aiming for his right one. The ghost of Sir Keith...
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Ground rules
As the common longing for a firm moral bedrock intensifies, will Andrea Dworkin's black-and-white brand of political feminism be revived? Jennifer Wallace finds her in optimistic mood. Gascoigne...
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A yoke that's wearing thin
The link may go back a long way but Britain protests too much about its 'special relationship' with the United States, says Kathleen Burk. Anglo-American relations have attracted an incrustation of...
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Please disrupt our conference
The disruption of a conference on East Timor by an organised mob in Kuala Lumpur last month may have done the troubled country a favour. Peter Carey reports. Fifteen years ago, when I first became...
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Stand by your texts
As Valentine Cunningham stands shivering in the harsh winds blowing through academia, what exactly fires his resolve to stick to his calling? When thousands of higher education teachers take to the...
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The shock will hit the new
Universities and colleges are shedding their staff by force and cajolery. THES reporters examine the options. An estimated 3,000 jobs have been lost in universities this year, writes Alan Thomson....
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Case study
Universities and colleges are shedding their staff by force and cajolery. THES reporters examine the options. Sheffield College has lost about 100 teaching and 50 support staff out of 2,000, with the...