Speaking Volumes: New Society (1962-87)
Simon Frith on New Society (1962-87). When New Society was launched (as the social sciences' own New Scientist) on October 4, 1962, I was still at school. I bought the magazine every week and read it...
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Simon Cooke, who is researching the work of Wilkie Collins for a PhD at the University of Exeter, seeks a copy of Collins's I Say No, along with illustrated copies of any of the other novels. If...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON: Doctor of Arts: Michael Young, director of the Centre for Community Studies and trustee of Dartington Hall (1942-92); Harold Pinter, playwright. Doctor of Design: Cedric...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY: Research grants Dr B. Weiss, Pounds 100,161 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (gratings and amplifiers fabricated in planar Si02 structures using ion...
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Events
CAFAS: The Council for Academic Freedom and Standards will hold a meeting tomorrow, Saturday, January 28 in room MB307 at Birkbeck College, Malet Street, WC1 (nearest tube: Goodge Street). The...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN: David Alexander, senior lecturer, now has a personal chair in mental health (psychotherapy). UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON: Personal chairs have been conferred on: Pat Hendra (...
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Writer's past retreat
(Photograph) - Writer's past retreat: playwright Harold Pinter has received an honorary degree from the University of East London. He is pictured here outside his Worthing home in 1965.
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Awards
ENGINEERING: Hayley Gladstone was awarded the title 1994 Young Woman Engineer of the Year. The award is jointly sponsored by the Institution of Electronics and Electrical Incorporated Engineers and...
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Loaves, fishes and cereal yields
Tim Dyson argues that despite the explosion in world population, it will not outpace food production. Newspapers and television often give considerable coverage to those who argue that the world's...
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Chinese graduates told to lower salary sights
A record total of 895,000 students will graduate from China's 1,075 universities and colleges of higher education this year, an increase of 38 per cent on 1994. It is anticipated that graduates will...
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Business schools find going tough
One fifth of Denmark's 56 business colleges lose money, and they lay the blame on reforms that took effect in 1991. The reforms introduced competition between business and sixth-form colleges for...
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Stitches in search of a scholarly identity
If fine arts and crafts seem locked in a perennial struggle to define themselves in the higher education spectrum, their problems are nothing compared to the identity crisis of embroidery. Its...
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When a 'ferocious lunge' is not a 'slight prick'
Courts look set to benefit from research at University of Wales, College of Cardiff, which aims to help bring hard science to bear on the often difficult task of assessing the force used on victims...
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EU green policy gets southern comfort
Southern Europeans are sidestepping their governments to get help with environmental problems direct from the European Union, a conference on environmental policy heard. The trend is one example of...
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The reluctant rebel
Pollster David Butler (below) has spent a lifetime collating the opinions of the partisan in the most unpartisan of ways. But the refusal of the Oxford and Cambridge Club to admit women has driven...