Readerships
University of Teesside The title of reader has been conferred on Dick Richardson, senior lecturer in international and green politics in the school of social sciences, and Colin Hempstead, school of...
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Rebirth of a nation
Revisions of history tend to be western. Now, in a new film, a Muslim academic is challenging the West's view of Pakistan's founder and of Mountbatten, India's last viceroy. Lucy Hodges reports....
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Eat, drink, man, woman?
The simmering debate about the existence of cannibalism is back on the boil with the imprisonment of a Nobel prize-winning believer, Tim Cornwell reports. Cannibalism is one of the last great taboos...
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How Blair can remedy the right state we're in
Labour must modernise industry and back regional growth if it is not once again to preside over a slump, argues Colin Hay. Now that Labour has won the election, the debate over the party's self-...
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New kid in the House
Newly elected Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb talks to Phil Baty about the transition from Bath University professor to House of Commons greenhorn. Steve Webb is approaching his third week as an MP...
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The debt owed to Aberfan
An Oxford University professor claims that the Aberfan Disaster Fund was bullied out of Pounds 150,000 and that the present Government should make amends. Julia Hinde reports. The cemetery and the...
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Elixirs of life
In 1990 the cost to Britain of Alzheimer's disease was estimated at up to Pounds 3 billion a year. There is no reversing this cruel illness, which robs sufferers, literally, of their minds; the...
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Improved table manners
All universities are equal, but some are more equal than others, as George Orwell might well have said. When The Times first imported the idea of league tables designed to inform the public on the...
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The age of the oldie
If you care enough, you can keep a vintage car going indefinitely. When it stops, you strip it down, fix any broken parts, or fabricate new ones. But the human body, alas, is not like that. It cannot...
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Fellowships
Institution of Electrical Engineers. Honorary fellows of the institution: James Porteous, chairman and chief executive of Yorkshire Electricity Group (1990-92), vice president of IEE (1992-93),...
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Racing start
THE NEXT Damon Hill could be female, if a motor racing research project finds the winning formula. Judy Eaton, a lecturer in gender and psychology at Coventry University, is studying the social and...
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Sharpe shooting
NEXT WEEK sees the gripping finale in ITV's swashbuckling adventure series Sharpe, with Sean Bean starring in the re-creation of the Battle of Waterloo. One viewer with more knowledge than most of...
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Families still come first
ESRC's population and household change programme will inform Government on welfare reform. Early findings below. THE FAMILY has survived enormous change to retain its central position in most British...
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Fender warns governors
Tony Tysome on the background to the latest move in the Southampton Institute saga Southampton Institute governors have been told by funding council chiefs that the institute faces "significant risks...
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Unions aren't us, thanks
SHAUN COLE, advanced fellow in cosmology at Durham University, is not a union member. "It doesn't cost much to join, but I am not quite sure what I would get out of joining," he said. "In terms of...