Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON Honorary fellowships have been awarded to: Richard Jenkins, former administrator of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Know-How Fund; Sterling Betancourt, musician and band...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Norman Bowery, professor in the School of Pharmacy, London, chair of pharmacology; Peter Clark, Aston business school, chair of organisational management; David Edgar,...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY David Davies, Cambridge University director of public programmes, has been appointed director of the centre for continuing education. THE OPEN COLLEGE Tony Horsfield, management...
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Awards
SAHABDEEN INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AWARD. The Award for 1996 has been jointly presented to Chandra Wickramasinghe and Chintamini Ramachandra of the University of Wales Cardiff in recognition of their...
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Grants
ANGLIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY The Learning from Experience Trust, Pounds 54,150 by the National Lottery Charities Board for a project to design and pilot a learning from experience pack for people...
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Safe but sorry?
Does CUP shy away from publishing controversial work? Georgina Born believes that in her case it did. A few years ago, I had an experience not unlike that of Anastasia Karakasidou, the anthropologist...
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An appetite for pastry... and power
He has the appetite of a horse, the memory of an elephant and the confidence of a mountain goat - and he is arguably Europe's most successful politician. Huw Richards asks academics to assess the...
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Africa's tusk master
Richard Leakey tells Andrew Robinson how a young bone peddler grew up to become a respected palaeoanthropologist and politician. "You say I'm a scientist and a conservationist and a politician. I'm...
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Yangtze doodle dandy
Self-expression or formal drawing lessons? Maureen Cox contrasts children's art in the UK with that of China. We know a good deal about children's ability to draw. Most of them begin by scribbling,...
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Wasted talents
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. Could do better." It is such a school report cliche that,...
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Unorthodox... and untenured
Sian Griffiths reports on the mystery surrounding the failure of a respected Muslim historian, Ayesha Jalal, to secure tenure at one of America's leading universities. Original", "very very good", "...
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Early recitals
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. Alexander Faludy's mother admits her son "stuck out like a...
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Bright spark
He is a part-time electronic engineering student at the University of Plymouth. He is sponsored by British Aerospace. He has been awarded the City and Guilds Silver Medal for outstanding achievement...
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First words of wisdom
Identifying and educating very able children is fraught with difficulty. But higher education may provide the answer. Tony Tysome reports. When Ian Murray arrived at nursery school to pick up his son...
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A rocky path for 'roll-over option'
Don't," said a particularly perceptive member of our university senate during a sombre debate on funding last week, "don't let us be trapped into thinking that there is no alternative to locally...