Citizenship is not just cricket, teachers warn
Michael Portillo believes that military discipline and good citizenship go hand in hand. But Carol Nahra finds that teacher trainers are not so sure No political party wants to be seen to be ignoring...
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Tate stokes toe treading fears
Nick Tate was ushered into perhaps the most powerful job in British education this week. With an ominous flutter of red tape, Dr Tate was offered the role as chief executive of the new all-...
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Teens show some team spirit
The Government's bid to encourage military training for all teenagers has drawn attention to the role of cadets in higher education. Every year the army tries, principally at freshers' events, to...
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Ulster teaches nurses to keep cool in a disaster
The sinking of the Estonia passenger ship, the Kobe earthquake, the Manchester bombing, refugees in the former Yugoslavia, flooding in Bangladesh: the list of recent natural and man-made disasters...
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Biomedical research relies on begging bowl
Charities are now funding more than twice as many biomedical research papers in the United Kingdom as the Government-funded Medical Research Council. Joe Anderson, head of the unit for policy...
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Husbands and wives climb the ladder together
Marriage and the job. Equal opportunities Rebecca Dobash, professor of social research in the department of social policy and social work at the University of Manchester, and her husband Russell...
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Awards
Institute of Physics Glazebrook Medal and Prize: Alexander Donachie, dean of the faculty of science at University of Manchester, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the organisation of...
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Chairs
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology UMIST has appointed Margaret Bruce, senior lecturer, to the chair in design management and marketing in the textiles department....
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Marriage and the job
As competition torecruit scholars hots up, universities are increasingly offering jobs to star names. Sometimes their spouses come along too. Simon Midgley reports, and (right) two couples talk about...
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Pillar of tolerance
Muslim writer Fadia Faqir tells Kate Worsley how watching Lawrence of Arabia inspired her to write about the plight of Islamic women Fadia Faqir is suffering from "what we at Durham call fresher's...
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Appointments
Office for Public Appointments Leonard Peach was appointed as the first commissioner at the Office for Public Appointments and as a civil service commissioner on December 19. He is former chairman of...
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Fellowships
London School of Economics and Political Science The following were elected as honorary fellows of the school on December 12, 1996: John Ashworth, chairman of the British Library board and former...
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Sybil Oldfield has been commissioned to compile a biographical dictionary of british women humanitarians 1900-1950. Her definition of humanitarian for this project will include: * committed anti-...
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Blair chief marshal
Cofounder of left-of-centre intellectual network Nexus and big Blair fan, David Halpern is relishing the prospect of a new government. Phil Baty reports Michael Heseltine would dismiss him as a...
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Saving our bacon
Human organ donor rates are declining and genetically altered pigs reared to provide organs for transplants to people offer real hope. But there are serious concerns about the dangers of passing on...