Scratch side steps forward
Biosciences: University of Hertfordshire, 1992 rating: 1, 1996 rating: 2 CHRISTOPHER Atterwill, head of the biosciences department at the University of Hertfordshire, joined the institution in 1990,...
Search
-
-
Economists rise to the challenge
Economics: Birkbeck College, University of London, 1992 rating: 5, 1996 rating: 5 IT MIGHT have suffered the worst ever drubbing in the history of TV's University Challenge earlier this month, but...
-
Reach for the stars that became a patent success
Mechanical Engineering: Imperial College, London, 1992 rating: 5, 1996 rating: 5* HEADS would have rolled at the mechanical engineering department of Imperial College, London, if its researchers had...
-
The best of times at Oxford ...
History: Oxford, 1992 rating: 4, 1996 rating: 5* Research assessment panels delivered their verdicts on university and college departments throughout the UK this week. A bad grade can close a...
-
How the tables work
The tables are not available on the database. II How your subject did. III-IV How your university did at a glance. VIII-XV How your department did. XVI THES League table of excellence The 1996...
-
Economics lecturer
The tale of Mrs Typical is one of lost income that will plague her for life, according to research from Birkbeck's economics department. Hugh Davies, lecturer in economics, has constructed income...
-
Biomechanics group leader
The biomechanics group is one of Imperial's biggest patent sources, covering products such as artificial elbows, knees, shoulders and ankles. Andrew Amiss heads the group and one of his research...
-
Broadcast media research leader
Broadcast media in eastern Europe continue to suffer heavy political interference despite the collapse of communism and rise of democracy, research at the University of Westminster has revealed....
-
History fellow
Ewen Green's main submission in the 1996 RAE shows why historians chafe at the exercise's arbitrary time limits. Dr Green, fellow and tutor in history at Magdalen College, published Crisis of...
-
First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a philosopher who was close to Pope and never far from a mitre: "Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth, it may with reason be...
-
Beware the jargon in academic-speak
THIS month the Plain English Campaign announced its list of shame, that is, public bodies and private firms found guilty of providing information that is difficult or impossible for ordinary people...
-
Picasso's conscience
Picasso's biographer and friend John Richardson tells Kam Patel how the artist struggled to cope with being so far ahead of his peers and why his misogyny should be seen incontext. When the young...
-
Tunnel vision
The Channel tunnel cannot be made safe from terrorism, contends John Adams. So why is the Government refusing to even face the issue? Early promotional literature for the Channel tunnel featured a...
-
The real David Marquand stands up
Politician or professor? Brian Brivati talks to the principal of Mansfield College, about new Labour, the new right and his new job. Two of Thatcher's underclass once sledge-hammered my front door. I...
-
Whither Scotland's flower?
Is Scotland an integral cultural and economic part of the United Kingdom or would it be better off as an independent state in another, looser, union of European states? Malcolm MacKenzie and Neil...