Grants
LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY: Research contracts: Professor J. McGuirk and Dr P. Render, Pounds 209,147 from British Aerospace Ltd (damaged wing studies); Professor J. McGuirk and Mr A. Wray...
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Events
AZTEC AND MAYAS BALLGAME: The Sainsbury Gallery at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, is exhibiting a selection of 70 central American indian paintings and drawings from the collection of Howard...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND: Maria Tighe, consultant to the Law Society and Council for National Academic Awards, has been appointed professor and head of the department of law in the business...
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Appointments
LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Simon Lee, currently professor of jurisprudence in the faculty of law at Queen's University Belfast, will succeed James Burke, the institute's first Rector, on...
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We have the technology
John Taylor argues that the human mind can be modelled by machines. We live in extraordinarily volatile times, with constant challenges to any established authority, and clashes between people with...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a professor of jurisprudence: "But if people retain the self-consciousness and self-respect that is the greatest achievement of our species, they will let neither...
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Speaking Volumes: Participation and Democratic Theory
Elizabeth Meehan on Carole Pateman's Participation and Democratic Theory . I discovered Carole Pateman's Participation and Democratic Theory (1970) at a critical stage in my life. As a teenager, I...
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NVQ vision plea for consensus
The Government call for the completion of the national vocational framework has today been answered by the publication by the Employment Department of its long-awaited strategy paper on higher level...
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`Lazy' teachers accused
German students have accused their medical professors of "teaching fraud" after an investigation at Hamburg University showed that 88 per cent do not teach the legal minimum of four hours a week. A...
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Cambridge and Scots sight new astro turf
Cambridge and Edinburgh universities could take over the Royal Observatories under proposals being considered by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. Exploratory talks between the...
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland
(Photograph) - John Brown, professor of astrophysics at Glasgow University, has been appointed Astronomer Royal for Scotland, a post which has been vacant since the resignation of Malcolm Longair in...
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Life, art and a few blue periods
Tony Tysome finds that studying for an art MA in Barcelona isn't all sun, sangria and surrealism. It sounds like an artist's dream: nine months of soaking up the sights, sounds and culture of one of...
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The mathematician and the mystic
Andrew Robinson and Dipankar Home shed some light on the conversations between Einstein and Tagore on the nature of reality. If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth,...
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Sum mistake?
Margaret Brown asks if there is any truth in the perception that maths standards are declining. Mathematics rarely excites the media, yet The Guardian's recent front page headline stating that school...
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She who makes holy men fume
A standard bearer for equality or a self-publicist employing fatwa as career move? Simon Targett meets the exiled Bangladeshifeminist writer Taslima Nasreen. It was a hush-hush, mum's the word sort...