Don's Diary
THURSDAY. Early morning flight to Zurich delayed on the tarmac at Heathrow by "air traffic problems". Contemplate receding prospect of breakfast. Start reading book proofs which arrived yesterday....
THURSDAY. Early morning flight to Zurich delayed on the tarmac at Heathrow by "air traffic problems". Contemplate receding prospect of breakfast. Start reading book proofs which arrived yesterday....
Student funding for university hospitals is under review. Peter Richards welcomes some of the changes, but asks if the academic backbone of clinical education is near breaking point. The NHS "Reforms...
Sunday. Early start; must get to grips with the 12-inch pile of research funding applications. First meeting of the newly constituted South and West NHS research and development committee tomorrow....
Researching Children's Literature - Children's Literature
Survival is not guaranteed in the college sector any more. There are known to have been at-risk lists in higher education for well over a decade. Indeed last week the Public Accounts Committee was...
Inventions and Official Secrecy
Andrew Charlesworth cuts a path through the legal jungle on the World-Wide Web, in the first of a series of articles on Net law . It is apparent, from even a cursory survey of the Internet, that the...
Public Bodies, Private States - A Dream of England - The Body
A Sociology of Modernity:
SUNDAY. I lie awake at night, worrying about the team of specialist assessors I am to meet. I know that one comes from a department that was assessed as "satisfactory" the week before, after claiming...
QED and the Men Who Made It:
In Retrospect
The Story of a Marriage - The Story of a Marriage
Fifty years after the Red Army fought its way into Hitler's bunker the manner of the Fuhrer's death and the identification of his body remain in dispute. John Erickson recounts the tales of those...
Chris Hutchison reports from Montpellier on a bold attempt to bring together disparate disciplines at the cutting edge of high technology Forget the Festival de Cannes - it was computer scientists...