On a fertile course
Women's Education, Autonomy and Reproductive Behaviour
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Our social tapestry unravelled
The Contest for Social Science
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an anthropologist who died at Prague airport: "A new ideal was born, or...
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The new ministers
TONY WORTHINGTON, NORTHERN IRELAND EDUCATION MINISTER TONY WORTHINGTON, 55, MP for Clydebank and Milngavie since 1987, takes on responsibility for education, the training and employment agency,...
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The new ministers
STEVE BYERS: MINISTER FOR SCHOOL STANDARDS FAST-RISING Blairite Steve Byers, 44, an education and employment spokesman in Labour's shadow team, becomes Minister for School Standards. A former law...
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The new ministers
JOHN BATTLE: MINISTER OF STATE FOR SCIENCE, ENERGY AND INDUSTRY JOHN BATTLE, the bearded Irish Catholic MP for Leeds West, has returned to his former stamping ground to become minister of state for...
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Appointments
University of Abertay Dundee Neil Watson, former senior manager with the North of Scotland Water Authority, has been appointed business development manager for the wastewater technology centre....
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Awards
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography The Lindeman Award for the best paper on aquatic sciences by a scientist aged under 35 was presented in Sante Fe, New Mexico, to Chris Freeman, school...
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Closed files on open minds
Academics are wearily familiar with government obstructing their efforts to delve into official archives. But, as Lucy Hodges discovers, colleges can be equally unhelpful Should scholars be granted...
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The personal views of a 'scientific racist'
For the past few months Chris Brand, lecturer in psychology at Edinbugh University and so-called "scientific racist", has included The THES on the list of recipients for his "TgF" newsletter (TgF...
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Hale and place
Richard Wilkinson shows how good health is linked to self-esteem and a person's perceived place in the social hierarchy If toxic materials or infected food were responsible for as many deaths as...
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Old quacks and future nostrums
Phil Baty talks to Roy Porter (right), the historian of medicine whose knowledge of medieval plagues was used by a government confronting the horrors of Aids Roy Porter does not care for academia....
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A cultural evolution
In China the days of art as ideology seem numbered. Craig Clunas finds it is the burgeoning economy rather than the state that is driving the art market Is the recent death of China's paramount...
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Curry, the great British tradition
Alison Utley discovers that the relationship between so-called exotic foods and domestic fare can tell us a lot about ourselves In the new edition of her Complete Cookery Course Delia Smith found...
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So farewell then, John
He didn't convince the electorate but John Major has inspired five biographers to write about him. Brian Brivati asks the latest, Anthony Seldon, why he spent two years writing about the greyest...