First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from a journalist fascinated by Copernicus: "We can add to our knowledge, but we...
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Grants
University of Central England Research contracts Professor J. Low, Pounds 60,000 from the Midlands Study Centre (development of built environment professionals); Jubilee Arts and the Birmingham...
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Honorary degrees
University of the West of England DEd: Jack Taylor, former principal of Redland College, Bristol; Brian Simon, emeritus professor of education, University of Leicester. University of Leicester DLitt...
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Landmines in the psyche triggered by age
They don't know, they don't know, they think it's crazy, 50 years, you should be all right now ... They ask you questions, they don't understandat all what anybody thinks or what they've been through...
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Work with lava louts
Mark Davies outlines the dangers and attractions of working around mountains that explode. Kate Worsley reports Earlier this year Mark Davies spent two months monitoring the volcano on Montserrat, in...
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Silent veterans trapped in the ruins of a dead war
Many of those who experienced the second world war's horrors are still suffering psychologically. Stephen Davies and Nick Hunt believe we should now acknowledge their traumas and treat them In 1940...
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The origin of the specious?
Charles Darwin has been lauded as the principal author of evolutionary theory. But should the laurels be awarded instead to his grandfather, Erasmus? Desmond King-Hele examines the evidence It has...
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The morality of creature comfort
How humans treat animals is a question of our duties towards them not of their rights, argues Mary Midgley Every few months, there is a loud splash when a bold inhabitant dives into some academic or...
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Relatives' values
A new study suggests that cultural attitudes may affect perceptions of child sex abuse, adding to the difficulties social work lecturers face in teaching students how to spot and deal with the...
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Oasis off the King's Road
Kate Worsley samples the cool office elegance of Chelsea Art College's head in our series on academics' rooms Bridget Jackson and her room could not be more different. The wiry, silk-suited head of...
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Appointments
University of Central England Sybil Spence, lord mayor of Birmingham, former chief whip of the city's Labour group, has been appointed chancellor; Judith Elkin, professor and member of the Library...
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Fellowships
Hertford College, Oxford Honorary fellowships: Max Cowan, vice president and chief scientific officer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, United States; Bruce Pattullo, group chief executive and...
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The suspect Romeo
Timothy Garton Ash tells Harriet Swain what it was like to be spied on by friends and colleagues working for the East German secret police Our first glimpse of Timothy Garton Ash in his new book, The...
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Barristers should stay in court
KENNEDY is not suggesting giving less money to HE; it will just "seemless" (sic). R. Allan Reese Head of applications Academic services computing Hull University
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Tories fall at the post
Huw Richards talks to the new education shadows as the Tories slide off the road William Hague and the Conservative party face an even more massive task in trying to overturn Labour's 179-seat...