An epistolary suffragette
Elizabeth Robins
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Gay rebels and queerer norms
Out in Culture - A Queer Romance
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who once drove an ice-cream van and worked in a funeral parlour: "Then the back door slammed and my mother marched in on a gust of wind, the knot of her...
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The third great balloon debate
For the past two weeks we have loaded up our metaphorical hot air balloon, first with young scientists and then with young social scientists. Each time the balloon was overloaded and plunging to...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE. Ian Howard, artist and course director in drawing at the school of fine art, Duncan of Jordanstone College, has been appointed professor of fine art. KINGSTON UNIVERSITY. The...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON. John Palmer, chairman of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and vice-president of the...
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Honorary degrees
GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY. DLitt: Richard Wilson, actor and director. DSc: Kenneth Calman, chief medical officer. DTech: Allan MacDonald, director of regional marketing, British Aerospace. LLD:...
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Dying for a good fry-up
Increasing evidence points to the link between diet and disease. But why are we not taking heed, asks Kay-Tee Khaw. The major health challenge in industrialised societies with ageing populations is...
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On a clear day you can see to the multiplex
The citizens of Oxford may soon see new bingo halls, bowling alleys and car parks among their dreaming spires. Lucy Hodges asks whether colleges keen to profit from their land are responsible. Oxford...
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Showdown over FE jobs
Ninety jobs are to go at Rotherham College of Arts and Technology following the failure of a recovery plan worked out last year. The majority of the redundancies are expected to be compulsory....
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Call for CUP boycott
A leading Harvard anthropologist is calling for top academics to boycott Cambridge University Press. Their move comes as Royal Anthropological Institute president Roland Littlewood and two more US...
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Who gets paid most
Vice chancellors and medics may dominate the top end of the pay tables but the highest paid academic in Britain is a faculty member at London Business School, who pulled in between Pounds 150,000 and...
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Students scorn levy sidetrack
Student leaders have demanded that vice chancellors continue to pressure the Government over higher education funding instead of debating one-off undergraduate levies. NUS president Jim Murphy, and...
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University funding
The Association of University Teachers has again called for a Royal Commission to lead a national investigation in to the "nightmare problem" of university funding, writes Alison Utley. The AUT said...
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Key issue review due 'shortly'
The Government is poised to produce plans for tackling key higher education funding and policy issues, but the plans are expected to be broadbrush rather than detailed. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of...