Events
ARIADNE'S THREAD. "Ariadne's Thread" is a solo exhibition of sculpture and prints by Helen Kenny which draws on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Ms Kenny studied at La Cambre in Brussels and...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD. Gillian Lynne, choreographer and former soloist with the Royal Ballet, has been appointed professional patron at the Centre for Media, Performance and Communications. THE...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. Sam Falle, reader, personal chair in astrophysical fluid dynamics; Kevin Keasey, professor of finance and accounting, Leeds Permanent Building Society chair in financial services...
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Britannia in fur coat and no knickers
THE LOST VICTORY: BRITISH DREAMS, BRITISH REALITIES 1945-1950 by Correlli Barnett. Macmillan, 514pp, Pounds 20.00 - ISBN 0 333 48045 7. THE SCHUMAN PLAN AND THE BRITISH ABDICATION OF LEADERSHIP IN...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a recently returned member of the Labour diaspora: "To substitute the politics of mutual education for the politics of command and exchange would be to gamble - not...
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Speaking Volumes: The English Constitution
Peter Hennessy on Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution . For 29 years I have been in thrall to a man and a book - Walter Bagehot and his The English Constitution. I read it one autumn evening in...
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Whitehall's superconductor
Robert May tells Martyn Kelly how he helped bring order to scientific chaos The Government's new Chief Scientific Adviser is, if the headline writers are to be believed, about to bring chaos to the...
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Primate suspect
The sexual appetites of the sacred monkeys of India brought feminism and fame to oil heiress Sarah Hrdy. Lucy Hodges profiles her When Sarah Hrdy set out as a postgraduate student to study the sacred...
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Evolution of Dan
Daniel Dennett has a hit list of those he thinks are obstructing the march of evolutionary theory. Aisling Irwin reports Daniel Dennett, philosopher, is swatting flies. Until now he has been content...
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Achilles heel
A generation of classical scholars is emerging who cannot read Latin and Greek in the original. Ilsa Godlovitch talks to traditionalists and modernists The days are long gone since the perfect...
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The long, hot debate
Is global warming the scourge that will kill off our planet or is it a myth? Ayala Ochert assesses the climate of opinion (left) while Fred Singer argues that we need to collect more scientific...
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Open windows for job opportunities?
What is happening to equal opportunities in our academic community? A post- doctoral temporary lecturer, having carried the department's teaching load for a year, was not even shortlisted for the...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Off to Warsaw for the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies. Congresses I-IV, we recall as we fly past Berlin, included in their title that outdated word - "Soviet"....
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Research with a use
The Foundation for Research Development, a South African body funded by the government, held a symposium recently to ponder "the role of university research in South Africa amid uncertainties of...
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High street gene shop
Rifat Malik (THES, September 8), in writing on uses of DNA technology has entirely misinterpreted the background and aim of the proposed gene shop on the high street, mentioned in her article. First...