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  1. Speeding at 74

    If biographers leave their imprint on their subjects, the converse is equally true. Shortly after telling a seminar about Gladstone's formidable, long-lived energy the 74-year-old Lord Jenkins was...

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  2. Academic drift

    At last a use for all the material that never made it into the research assessment exercise? This week the Friends of Dundee University's botanic garden organised a lecture by "alternative" floral...

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  3. Brushes with Basil

    (Photograph) - Brushes with Basil: controversial sociologist Basil Bernstein received two Festschrifts, collections of essays on the influence of his ideas at a celebration at the University of Wales...

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  4. LSE strip teaser

    Alumni to be proud of no 14: Robert Watters, proprietor of Rick's, the Houston, Texas strip-bar whose past patrons have included O. J. Simpson, Sting and President Bush's 1992 Republican convention...

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  5. Fit for a hero, like?

    Maxwell Irvine, principal of Aberdeen University, may be moving to a larger institution when he becomes vice chancellor of Birmingham University next year, but will he be such a celebrated local...

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  6. Malaysian college plan falters

    Plans for a privately-financed London University college in Malaysia are in danger of collapse over disagreements between the university authorities and the sponsors about the status of the new...

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  7. Surprise rise in intake could bring penalties

    Early estimates from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service indicate that there has been a 6.4 per cent increase in admissions for this academic year compared to 1994/95. This means that...

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  8. Leeds censors access to Internet

    Leeds University has decided to withdraw access to a range of Internet newsgroups because of their "appalling" content, which computer staff say often includes pornographic material. But some...

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  9. Battle of the races

    Affirmative action is under attack in the United States. Tim Cornwell reports. A snapshot from an ideological battlefield: reporters from the new conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, called...

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  10. Whither the likely lads?

    Whatever happened to the heirs of the New Left, asks Fred Inglis In the early 1960s there was a remarkable flowering of intellectual life in Britain with the bursting into colour of the New Left....

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