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  1. Dynamos with degrees

    Graduates bring added value to business. Phil Baty analyses a comprehensive survey that challenges employers' claims of inadequacy with evidence that employers value degrees New evidence has...

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  2. Awards

    American Anthropological Association. The 1996 Distinguished Service Award was presented to Barbara Harrell-Bond, director and founder of the refugee studies programme, University of Oxford, in...

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  3. Will it all end in tears?

    The Tories may be heading for electoral meltdown, but Richard Cockett argues that no one should underestimate their ability to turn opposition to their advantage. The Conservative party tends to...

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  5. Let them watch Strindberg!

    Peter Watkins, the director whose films outraged the establishment in the 1960s, is back warning students of the narrow conservatism of TV. Patrick Murphy reports. If it's Monday, it must be York....

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  6. Global theatre

    The world, it is frequently said, is becoming smaller as national boundaries are rendered irrelevant by the enveloping forces of globalisation. But is the phenomenon exaggerated? Huw Richards...

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  7. Geneticist to explore Dutchmen's extra inches

    In the first of an occasional series on up-and-coming researchers, Graham Lawton talks to biologist Armand Leroi. Why are Dutchmen taller than Pygmies? Why are elephants bigger than mice? According...

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  8. Owl of Minerva sought as MPs fail to talk turkey

    Brian Brivati calls on academics to sweeten the foul air of politics with refreshing ideas. The first real skirmishes of the 1997 general election have left a nasty taste in my mouth. If this is as...

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  9. Chairs

    University of Lancaster. The following consultants from Lancaster Acute Hospitals Trust have been appointed honorary professors: Allen Brown, consultant general physician with a special interest in...

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  10. Grants

    Queen's University, Belfast Charities. Dr D. Bell, Pounds 52,7 from British Heart Foundation (fellowship); Dr S. Doran, Pounds 20,516 from Airey Neave Trust (judicial responsibility); Professor P....

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  11. Honorary degrees

    University of Northumbria. DCL: Laing Barden, former director of Newcastle Polytechnic and vice chancellor of the university until 1996; Martin Trow, founding director of the centre of studies in...

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  12. Search

    Deborah Davies, a part-time masters student in legal practice at the University of Westminster, has undertaken a research dissertation on the legal practice implications of students as consumers of...

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  13. Appointments

    Unesco. Federico Mayor, director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, has set up a 56-member international scientific advisory board to encourage greater...

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