Tips for Dearing from the south
It has been interesting to read reports of reactions to South Africa's national commission on the future of higher education discussion document. I was privileged to attend the recent Salzburg...
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A little extra ordinary
A favourite Dutch saying is: "Ordinary is extraordinary enough." The expression says much about Dutch attitudes. Common sense, pragmatism and (false) modesty are important values. This has left its...
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Big shot in the mind field
When Francis Crick began researching consciousness it was a relatively unploughed field. Now, he tells Kam Patel, it has become crowded with interlopers. It is a cool, sunny day in San Diego and from...
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Lights, cameras...no action
Media studies has proved enormously popular, but Ian Christie belives it has not lived up to its early promise and student Mireilli Fowler (box) explains why she was initially disillusioned with her...
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The media generation
Media studies has proved enormously popular, but Ian Christie believes it has not lived up to its early promise and student Mireilli Fowler (box) explains why she was initially disillusioned with her...
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The sight seer
Colin Blakemore's experiments on the eyes of monkeys and kittens have earned him a top research prize Q and bombs and threats from animal activists. Colin Blakemore seems more relieved than jubilant...
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Internal exile
Paul Bompard reports on a project to find Italy's lost Jews. As professor of demographics at Rome's La Sapienza university and as a member of Rome's Jewish community, Eugenio Sonnino is preparing a...
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Here's looking at EU
Should Britain be at the heart of a federal Europe? Martin Holmes protests at such a future but Helen Wallace can see advantages. Three arguments have been advanced in favour of a federal/integrated...
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Googie fails to wither
Tim Cornwell reports on the revival of interest in the vulgar US roadside architecture of the 1950s. John English is a veteran of battles to save monuments. He was on hand to mourn the demolition of...
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The Europhile
Should Britain be at the heart of a federal Europe? Martin Holmes protests at such a future but Helen Wallace can see advantages. * Should the British be in favour of Europe or against it? The...
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Calls for medical Academy
The medical community, battered by NHS reforms and splintered into an unwieldy number of committees, councils and colleges, might benefit from an Academy of Medicine, it was claimed this week. A...
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Shell 'ignored' sea experts
Scientific expertise was ignored when disposal options for Shell's Brent Spar offshore platform were drawn up last year, according to a report out this week. An independent group of scientists and...
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Four labs face sell-off probe
Research council laboratories that have already undergone a review of their possible privatisation are to be subject to yet another study by the Government. Declaring the findings of the Government's...
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Squeeze of 5.8% for FE
Details of almost Pounds 3 billion of funding allocations for 1996/97 released this week show a revenue increase of 3.4 per cent over last year, according to the Further Education Funding Council....
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Time to be upfront about excellence
Belief that academic excellence is a shield for universities' autonomy is clearly wrong, according to Thorsten Nybom, director of the Swedish Council for Studies of Higher Education in Stockholm. "...