Technicolour exotics
Quantum Field Theory
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The lazy, hazy days of summer school analysis
Large-Scale Matrix Problems and the Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations
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Top quarks and intricate lattices
Quantum Fields on a Lattice
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Whatever happened to Bohm?
Quantum Mechanics
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Crumbling cornerstones
Michael Scott believes the traditional concept of a university is crumbling fast, and a good thing too. The popular conception of university education is based on the Oxbridge model and, to a lesser...
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Course obstacles
Universities have historically done little to make disabled students welcome, and still have no statutory duty to do so. Simon Midgley finds out how their lot has improved since the 1970s. In some...
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Self-fulfilling action
Helen Garrod was born with a form of dwarfism and spends much of her waking day in an electric wheelchair. Now 24, she recently left Nottingham University where she achieved a first-class honours...
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Essential parts
Is the modularisation of courses a stepping stone or a stumbling block? The latest signs seem to point to a brighter future, say Norman Jackson and Patricia Gregg. Nearly 90 per cent of universities...
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Promotions
SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY. Principal lecturer and reader: Barry Goodchild, senior lecturer in housing and urban planning. Senior academic: Glyn Owen, former principal lecturer, policy research...
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The job's the thing
The growth of business studies may not simply be cause for celebration all round, as Lucy Hodges reports. Anyone who thinks Britain is still churning out too many arts graduates - people who can read...
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Figured out
Collecting comprehensive data is a colossal undertaking, says Brian Ramsden. The Higher Education Statistics Agency was incorporated in November 1992, following proposals in the White Paper Higher...
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Second or third time lucky
Nick Clarke, aged 36, is registered as blind. Actually he is partially sighted. A hereditary degenerative eye condition that appeared when he was five has meant the loss of his direct vision. If he...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH. Exeter School of Arts and Design. Doctor of Arts: Brian Sanders, illustrator. Royal Engineering College, Manadon. DTech: Hermann Bondi, mathematician, astronomer and former...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER. Charities. Dr D. Twell, Pounds 79,256 from the Royal Society (research fellowship); Professor G. Dover, Pounds 128,391 from the Wellcome Trust (an experimental analysis of...
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Events
DESIRING PRACTICES. "Desiring Practices" is a series of free architecture and design exhibitions being held in London and highlighting the importance of gender roles in new practices in architecture...