Bengali Brahmin meets Berkeley
Bharati Mukherjee tells Ronald Warwick about her transformation from high-caste Indian into American writer. I met Bharati Mukherjee in Holland where she was launching the Dutch translation of her...
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Leeds censors access to Internet
Leeds University has decided to withdraw access to a range of Internet newsgroups because of their "appalling" content, which computer staff say often includes pornographic material. But some...
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Surprise rise in intake could bring penalties
Early estimates from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service indicate that there has been a 6.4 per cent increase in admissions for this academic year compared to 1994/95. This means that...
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Whites-only row for Rhodes
Ten Rhodes scholars from southern Africa have arrived in Oxford to begin their studies and there is not a black face among them. Members of the Rhodes Scholarship Southern African Forum, which...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper, including Multimedia and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The...
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Maxwell moves
Maxwell Irvine, who became principal of Aberdeen University in 1991, has been appointed vice chancellor of Birmingham University from October 1996. He will succeed fellow physicist Sir Michael...
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Hard drive needed
Bill Lindsay of Strathclyde University's education faculty has warned that a teacher recruitment drive "of dramatic proportions" is needed to underpin Labour leader Tony Blair's vision of providing...
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Charity urges big trial of breast cancer drug
The Cancer Research Campaign has appealed to all breast cancer experts in the United Kingdom to take part in a huge trial of the drug tamoxifen, writes Aisling Irwin. The trial, which aims to reach...
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Triple headache for accountants
Access funds, always objects of student scepticism, have begun to inspire fear and loathing among university accounts departments. In the dock alongside them is a more familiar villain, the Higher...
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Money for old Ropa
The wildly popular director of research councils, Sir John Cadogan, is said to be hopping mad at journalists continually writing what he regards as negative stories about the work by the Office of...
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Bitter pill
From the British Medical Journal of 100 years ago, advice to school leavers contemplating studying medicine: "No one will deny that the prizes are great and that those who win them find their way...
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Streetwise
Who would you trust the numbering of our houses to: a mathematician, a philosopher, a writer, an architect or an "uncomplicated ordinary citizen"? J. N. Hunt, mathematician at Reading University, has...
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Into the limelight
(Photograph) - Gilbert Smith (left), deputy director of research and development at the Department of Health and the National Health Service Executive and professor of social administration at the...
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Award for best annual report
The University of St Andrews has won this year's THES/KPGM award for the best annual report from a United Kingdom university. The award was presented by Grant Macrae, senior partner in KPMG, in...