Bluffer's guide to Christmas lecturing
There is nothing as terrifying in all the academic world, says one scientist; it is like going to the guillotine in a cart that you cannot stop, says another. Agreeing to give the Royal Institution...
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Cold war resurfaces between anthropologists
British academics have been accused of exhibiting "the inertia of the cold war mentality" by criticising their Russian colleagues. The council of the Royal Anthropological Institute passed a...
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Sky light
(Photograph) - Sky light: with gripping new observations coming in from space probes such as Hubble, Galileo, Clementine and Ulysses, Dennis Ashton, director of the Star Centre, just opened at...
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Dropouts prompt inquiry
The English funding council is launching a study to find out if more students are dropping out of degree courses. It has put details of a research study out to tender and bids have to be in by...
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Events
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. The University of Hertfordshire has organised an environmental education conference on January 11-12 focussing on: European Union facilitating programmes; curriculum...
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Colonial writers lost in the post
Postcolonial studies is drowning in a tidal wave of jargon, conceptual inanities and political exhibitionism argues Russell Jacoby. Just when poststructuralism, postmodernism and deconstructionism...
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Pay on Labor'selection agenda
AUSTRALIA. This was the year that universities in Australia grappled with enterprise bargaining. Urged on by federal government, academics and administrators on every campus spent months negotiating...
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1995 AD: Anno Darwinis?
The year began with an interview with academic and writer Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel laureate for literature. Soyinka, who spent months in jail for promoting peace with breakaway Biafra...
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Budget leaves nip in the air
FUNDING. Academics have been moaning about cheese-paring for years, but this was not the alternative they wanted. The old Soviet-era joke about the state of Russian agriculture - "About average -...
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Space probed
SCIENCE. Charles Darwin's face gazed out of a lot of newsprint in The THES this year as sociobiologists went public over their controversial work, which they now regard as firmly based in science....
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From academy to acropolis
Richard Clogg looks back at the life of Andreas Papandreou, the urbane Greek academic who became his country's populist prime minister. Andreas Papandreou currently lies in the Onasseion Heart...
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Vocational degrees
Elaine Williams reports on a group of Oxford students for whom the academic challenge is not the only test they have to endure. Simon Uttley is one of the University of Oxford's growing number of...
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Coming out of the broom closet
The ranks of modern witches are being swollen by new converts, but Diane Purkiss finds they are more likely to be concerned with green issues than black arts. As today, December 22, marks the winter...
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The simple truth about complexity
These days most disciplines keep themselves to themselves. They have their own theories, their own stars, their own bitter arguments. But every now and then a wave of ideas sweeps across the...