Di-ology: Year one
Stage one:Shock September 1997 Nottingham Trent University produced figures estimating that 30 per cent of Britons were as shocked by Diana's death as they would have been by the outbreak of war....
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Temple of Diana
Elaine Showalter joined the pilgrimage to Diana's grave at Althorp, where the Spencer family has reclaimed the princess as one of its own. I was in the United States when Princess Diana was killed...
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You are what you eat
Food can define a national identity. Shannon Peckham offers a taste of some of the historical ingredients that shaped our character The destiny of nations," wrote the philosopher of gastronomy...
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Roaming in the graves of academe
In life she was chased by the paparazzi and hounded by the media. In death academia is picking over her bones. Kate Worsley reports on the growth of Di-ology. Whatever happened to that cocktail of...
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Lights, camera, learning
Stephen Bayly is fighting to keep the UK's film school at the cutting edge. Kam Patel reports. Stephen Bayly has gone back to school. Only this time he has gone back to run it. Inevitably much has...
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Two for the shooting
First-year National Film and Televison School students Gavin Struthers and Sasha Olswang are on a six-week placement at Discovery TV with a brief to come up with three-minute items to fill...
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Honorary degrees
University of WarwickDLitt: Simon Barrington-Ward, former bishop of Coventry and member of House of Lords, prelate of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George (1989); Penelope Lively...
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Brits take maths Fields ahead
Two young British academics have won the equivalent of the Nobel prize in mathematics. Richard Borcherds and Tim Gowers, both of whom are at the University of Cambridge, were awarded the Fields medal...
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Hexagen
Hexagen, a biotechnology company that grew out of the University of Cambridge two years ago, has been taken over by Incyte Pharmaceuticals of the United States for Pounds 23.5 million.
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Within these walls
(Photograph) - Brian Booth, vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire, awards Chris Danks with his BA hons degree in fashion at Lindholme Prison, near Doncaster. Photograph: Steve...
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York merger to go ahead
THE merger of York College of Further and Higher Education and York Sixth Form College has been approved by the Further Education Funding Council's regional committee.
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Fact file
HESA findings for 1996-97 reveal that: * Male first-degree graduates are almost twice as likely to study for a higher degree by research (18 per cent of men compared with 10 per cent of women). * 54...
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Outside advice a must for biotech
Biotechnology firms should be required to consult independent experts about drug trials, the Commons Committee on Science and Technology said this week, writes Alison Goddard. The recommendation...
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Institutional arms in arms
FIFTEEN British universities and 21 Oxbridge colleges held shares in major arms-exporting companies last year, according to a blacklist compiled by the Campaign Against Arms Trade. The pressure group...
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Help for the unsure at Pounds 130 an hour
HUNDREDS of students who fail to make the grade this year will put their trust in an educational consultancy charging Pounds 130 an hour. Gabbitas Educational Consultants is expecting to hear from...