Short shrift
Clare Short's dialogues with academics will strike many as a welcome sign of possible change (THES, November 10). If this approach is more generally adopted, we may yet be spared the type of myopic...
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Arthur Miller
(Photograph) - American playwright Arthur Miller has received an honorary degree of doctor of letters from Oxford University .
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD American playwright Arthur Miller has received an honorary degree of doctor of letters. Arthur Miller is the university's 6th Cameron Mackintosh visiting professor of...
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Grants
KINGS COLLEGE, LONDON Charities Dr L. C. Mahadevan, Pounds 92,150 from the Wellcome Trust (analysis of chromatin-associated signalling responses concomitant with immediate-early (IE) gene activation...
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Fellowships
GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Honorary fellowships have been conferred upon: Philip Harris, chairman and chief executive of Carpetright Group; Andy Hawkins, former leader of Lewisham Council. CITY...
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Events
LOWERING THE DRAWBRIDGE. The National Association for Fine Art Education's 1995 Conference will be hosted by Nottingham Trent University on November 23-24. It will explore how quality in fine art...
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Chairs
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE LONDON. P. W. A. Hamilton, professor at the University of Southampton, has been appointed to the chair of English; Edmund Robinson, reader at the University of Sussex...
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Awards
CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY. Cracow University has presented its 50th Anniversary Gold Medal to John Bale, dean of the faculty of design and the built environment and Willmott Dixon professor of...
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Appointments
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research has appointed the following governors: Charles Bean, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE;...
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Final word
This week's Final Word was written by an author who had read the whole of Herodotus in the original ancient Greek by the age of eight: "The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of...
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Speaking Volumes: The Acquisition of Territory in International Law
Malcolm Shaw on Robert Jennings's The Acquisition of Territory in International Law . I have an interest to declare here. The author of the book that I wish to write about bears the same name as the...
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A double on the rocks
Earth's Glacial Record - Glacial Environments
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A little nasty rashness
The Postmodern Turn - Understanding Classical Sociology - Sociological Theory
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Cracking cases
Interpreting Evidence - Science and the Detective
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Elements of success
Marie Curie