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FE COORDINATION Research Project 931 is a Further Education Unit feasibility study on a coordinated or central production and registration system for learning materials in further education colleges...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND MA: Doris Fiedor, chair of the Hartcliffe Community Council and member of the British Community Health Council, was awarded an honorary degree on February 3. NAPIER...
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Events
NEW YORK, NEW YORK The Hunterian Art Gallery is presenting the only Scottish showing of an exhibition of New York city prints (1880s-1990) from the collection of Reba and Dave Williams. The...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Mark Overton, reader at the University of Newcastle, has been appointed professor of economics and social history from April 1. Simon Wren-Lewis, professor in macro-economic...
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Ciba Research Fellowship Award has been presented to Steven Ley of the University Chemical Laboratory. The Ciba Award will underpin work in synthetic organic chemistry....
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Appointments
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY John Annette, professor and head of the university's school of history and politics, has been appointed chair of Middlesex University Press. WELSH COLLEGE OF MUSIC AND DRAMA...
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A sparkling career
A recent memorial service for crystallographer Dorothy Crowfoot. Hodgkin, the only British woman to win a Nobel prize for science, was attended by the great and the good. Olga Wojtas traces the life...
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Scientific fraud squad call
The drug industry is calling for independent investigation into allegations of scientific fraud. Claims that medical and scientific research need policing were made by ex-editor of the British...
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Symbolic victory
Andrew Robinson reveals how the secrets of the ancient Maya are being uncovered as Linda Schele and her colleagues learn to decipher the first American writing system. "The American chronicle does...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a story about explosions and Manhattan: "The preeminent transnational community in our culture is science. With the release of nuclear energy in the first half of...
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Speaking Volumes: The Singer of Tales
Ruth Finnegan on Albert Lord's The Singer of Tales . When I arrived in Oxford my tutor told me to read my classical texts aloud. Being literal-minded, I took her advice. And having read out all those...
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The value of Acas conciliation
I would like to make it clear where this union stands in relation to the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service. Natfhe has sought the advice and assistance of Acas on numerous occasions and...
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Profit in diversity
It is next to impossible to assess the true overall value of a species," Norman Myers writes in his review this week of a clutch of books on biodiversity (pages 22-28). We cannot tell what may come...
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Noble image of a learning society
If all the oratory about the importance of education means anything, it is surely that this country badly needs to become a learning society. What exactly a learning society might be gives fertile...
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Balancing the books
Universities are losing their ivory-tower image, transformed by what one Cambridge University administrator calls "a new breed of academic". Vice chancellors are now regarded as high-flying chief...