Don's Diary
June/July Bid farewell to registry duties at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London and embark on a one-month teaching English as a foreign language course in preparation for two years...
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Honorary degrees
University of Oxford The university has proposed to confer an honorary degree (Doctor of Civil Law) by diploma on Roman Herzog, president of the Federal Republic of Germany. University of Sheffield...
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Nudes and Tin-Tin
Julian Opie recalls life at a London art college in the late 1970s, when the teachers were so cool they outclassed the students. The European League of Institutes of the Arts, founded in Amsterdam in...
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Drawing inspiration
Gillian Crampton-Smith reveals how artists in computer-related design are working with engineers to develop software and hardware. It was clear by 1990 that the increasing miniaturisation of...
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Selective values
Colin Painter believes that the arts should find a place in the lives of people outside the professional art worlds. The issues surrounding "multiculturalism" are arguably the most significant for...
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White on black
Elaine Williams talks to Marlene Dumas, the white South African artist who specialises in painting black people. Marlene Dumas, one of the speakers at ELIA, is a white South African who chooses to...
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Paint the town green
Design education must reflect the growing need for environmentally sound products, says John Sorrell. Designers are renowned for finding inspirational solutions to highly complicated problems. There...
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Stealthy steps to success
Art and design is a European growth area, but it remains bedevilled by conservatism, argues Katharine Crouan. Over the past five years, surprisingly little analysis has been undertaken at a European...
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Appointments
Oxford centre for Hebrew and Jewish studies Brad Sabin Hill, curator of Rare Hebrew Books in the National Library of Canada (1979-89) and head of the Hebrew section of the British Library (1989-95)...
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First impressions
The Titanic was not holed by this contemporary obstruction: "Unexpected obstacle. Please don't come till thirtieth. Anna." The winner of last week'scompetition, who correctly identified the first...
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Entry bar angers students
Italian university students took to the streets twice this month to protest against legislation limiting the number of students who can enrol in certain faculties. The target of the protest was...
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Sacked lecturers go to Strasbourg
Mother-tongue lecturers from six European countries who work in Italian universities joined 23 colleagues sacked from the University of Verona at the European plenary in Strasbourg last week to back...
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Psycho test was out of order
A controversial interrogation technique that placed some University of Alberta students and staff under intense psychological scrutiny will not be used again by security staff, the university has...
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I spy with my little data gathering
If you have ever wondered how to assess and interpret huge quantities of intelligence information, Wilhelm Agrell is your man. Starting in November, Mr Agrell will be running a course called "The Art...
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Le Pen views pegged back
Leading French scientists have reacted to recent comments on race from extreme right politician Jean-Marie Le Pen by holding a debate and publishing a declaration dismissing Le Pen's statements on...