Don's Diary
MONDAY. Here I am in berserkly Berkeley. After two sabbatical months, I can find my way around at least geographically. My office in the Center for Studies in Higher Education is at the heart of the...
Search
-
-
Greens help consumers beat the meat habit
Slowly but surely Britain is becoming a nation of vegetarians. According to a new study from the University of Manchester, the greatest decline in meat buying has been among women, who were the...
-
-
Me and my shadow MP build some bridges
Shadowing is helping to bridge the gap between MPs and universities. The scheme, initiated by the Parliamentary University Group, aims to provide an opportunity for MPs and universities to discover...
-
Desert left to air
The THES expedition to Biosphere 2, the ecology centre in the Arizona desert built to perform experiments hermetically sealed off from the rest of the Earth (Biosphere 1), has revealed the secret of...
-
Easter eggnog
Swansea University psychologists Steve Glautier and John Bankart clearly have a pretty good grasp of the principles of their subject as applied to students. Swansea noticeboards have been emblazoned...
-
Legal liability
Strathclyde University has been celebrating the 200th anniversary of its foundation by John Anderson, who was himself a distinguished professor at Glasgow University. Principal John Arbuthnott has...
-
Pollster predicts Labor win in Oz
Two of the longest-serving left-of-centre governments go to the polls this weekend. Spain's voters look set to reject Felipe Gonzalez and his Socialist party after 13 and a half years in office, but...
-
Terra infirma
A royal commission has just concluded that we do not know much about the ground beneath our feet. Kam Patel unearths some disturbing facts about soil, and three experts explain why its degradation...
-
Stature and her liberty
Marina Warner's position outside mainstream academia may have served her well, says Elaine Williams What is a woman from Vogue doing taking on the Church?' That's what the critics were saying. You...
-
Raise your glasses, please
(Photograph) - Raise your glasses, please: Leonard Hewitt's Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University - nicknamed the "toast rack" - is one of eight post war university buildings to be...
-
Physics posts have rocketed sky high
Academic appointments in particle physics and astronomy have grown strongly in recent years despite a decline in research funding for the disciplines. Ken Pounds, chief executive of the Particle...
-
Teikyo two in Aids scandal, Tokyo
Vice president Takeshi Abe of private Teikyo University, Japan, which has a branch campus at Durham and has supported two colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, has resigned after being accused of murder...
-
A triumph for science
The finale of our great balloon debate was last week. In it, the faculties of science, social science and humanities argued about which should survive. The other two have to be ejected from an...
-
Cine qua non
(Photograph) - Joost Hunningher, director of last week's Lumi re Festival at the University of Westminster, shoulders an early film camera as he meets a Mutant Turtle at the centenary of the Lumi re...
