London College of Fashion have launched a fashion magazine on the Internet
(Photograph) - Absolutely fashionable: London College of Fashion students have launched a fashion magazine on the Internet.
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Arabs snub networkers' gathering in Israel
Palestinian and Arab delegates boycotted the sixth Joint European Networking Conference in Israel last month forcing the cancellation of a workshop for Middle Eastern countries on setting up a...
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Acorn backs the box
Distance learning on broad-band networks with a TV as access point rather than the PC has moved a step closer in the United Kingdom. Cambridge-based Online Media is developing an online service using...
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Honours
LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY On May 25 the following were awarded honorary doctorates : Jack Charlton, sportsman; Harry Patterson (also known as Jack Higgins) author; Helena Kennedy, barrister;...
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Grants
UMIST. Research councils: Dr A D Whetton, Pounds 190,2 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (cellular signalling events associated with haemopoietic stem cell...
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Events
HIDDEN TREASURE. "Hidden Treasure" is an exhibition which will turn the Djanogly Art Gallery into the setting for an adventure in contemporary children's picturebook illustrations. From collage and...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF WALES OF CARDIFF. Bruce Caterson, formerly of the University of North Carolina, has been appointed to the chair in biochemistry; Carole Rakodi, senior lecturer, has been appointed to...
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Appointments
ALSISS. The Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences has elected Tony Chapman, chair of psychology at the University of Leeds, as president. CVCP. Martin Harris, vice chancellor of the...
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Nasty, brutish and short
Ron Johnston, dissects the no-win rules of the Research Assessment Exercise. With less than a year to go to the submission date for the next Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), there is frenzied...
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Sickness can be good for you
Randolph Nesse continues The THES's debate on the impact of Darwinism by arguing that much of what medicine terms disease or breakdown is in fact a defence the body has evolved to protect itself from...
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Uprooting red daffodils
Anita Roy talks to professor of English, Meenakshi Mukherjee (right) about her iconoclastic approach to not-so-sacred texts. Owls are traditionally associated with wisdom in the west. In Hindu...
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Hate couture
Stella Hughes reports on the unpleasant experiences of an academic who chose to study French skinheads. French skinheads came under the spotlight last month when a young Moroccan strolling along the...
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Man: the story so far
Are humans different from animals in degree or in kind? Tim Ingold argues that the new Darwinism, far from offering a solution, is riddled with contradictions. Do human beings differ from other...
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Jeux sans frontieres
This week The THES debate on Darwinism moves to its impact on subjects outside biology. Here Kam Patel talks to psychologist David Buss (below). Overleaf Tim Ingold considers the relevance to...
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The parts league tables do not reach
I read with interest the university league tables (THES, May 19) There are many issues surrounding the formulation and presentation of league tables for universities but one in particular concerns me...