Don's Diary
Friday. An early morning trip from Blackheath to Norwich. At the university printers I take delivery of two boxes of my "bare hands" monograph on Fermat's last theorem, published by the Mathematics...
Search
-
-
Forth's lessons from down under
Visiting Australia seems to be in fashion. On arrival here, I found that I was following in the wake of Eric Forth, the minister for higher education. His purpose is similar to mine: to find out what...
-
Change out of Africa
In spite of its considerable achievements in the past three decades, the University of ABC finds itself in a precarious situation." Thus begins many a report by the World Bank or other external...
-
Mummy, I want to be a housewife
Why is it that two decades after the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts many women are still turning their backs on careers and opting to stay at home? Catherine Hakim calls on feminists to get...
-
Heirs to a contested past
Hans Mommsen's once groundbreaking arguments about the Holocaust are now accepted. Jennie Brookman profiles him. He is one of Germany's most eminent historians. Yet throughout his career people have...
-
Heirs to a contested past
Alan Thomson talks to Daniel Goldhagen, proponent of the latest controversial theory about ordinary Germans' role in making Hitler possible US academic Daniel Goldhagen may be forgiven for thinking...
-
The colour of Intelligence
Hans Eysenck defends his right his right to speak. Hitler banned IQ testing, "becauseit was Jewish", Stalin banned it "because it was bourgeois". Now Wiley have reneged on a contract to publish Chris...
-
The colour of intelligence
Rejected by his publishers and boycotted by his students, self-declared 'scientific racist' Chris Brand remains defiant. Olga Wojtas talks to him. As Chris Brand set out last week for a lunch...
-
The colour of intelligence
Rejected by his publishers and boycotted by his students, self-declared `scientific racist' Chris Brand remains defiant. On Friday April 12, as arranged by my then publishers, John Wiley &...
-
Biopiracy on the Big C
Tim Cornwell reports on the exploitation of the biological resources of indigenous peoples. Did the 260 Hagahai people of Papua New Guinea know that their genes might offer a cure for cancer?...
-
Force-feeding of hunger-striking suffragettes
June Purvis challenges assumptions that the force-feeding of hunger-striking suffragettes was merely extremely unpleasant.
-
Could the sun set in the East?
Talk of 'miracles' in the hot house economies of the Far East is inflated, argues Gerald Segal. Indeed, these 'Tigers' may soon be having trouble paying for pensions There is something about an...
-
Outrage as Bard moves house
Plans to transfer the renowned Arden Shakespeare series from Routledge to school textbook publisher Thomas Nelson have outraged Bard scholars. The move could precipitate an avalanche of resignations...
-
Cost cutting
The British Library is to stop the in-house publication of research project results to save money from September 30. The move frees money for research following a 13 per cent grant cut for 1996/97. A...
-
Listening learning bank
(Photograph) - David Blunkett, shadow education spokesman, called for smartcards and accounts at the TUC conference