Keep tuition free and tax industry
While researchers rejoice over Dearing there are those who believe that tuition should remain free and that part-time students deserve more support AS a former headteacher of an inner city...
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Don's diary
Wednesday Work has been pretty heavy for the past few weeks, so it feels self-indulgent to leave at 5pm, but we have a football match against civil engineering, which kicks off at 5.30. With a minute...
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How will we feel the morning after?
YOU COULD be forgiven for thinking, the way the chatterati are talking, that constitutions live in capital cities. Ours, it seems, is probably going to be devolved from Westminster to Edinburgh,...
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Nordic nadir for nepotism
A BOOK published in Denmark earlier this year, The World's Best Educational System (Verdens bedste uddanelsessytem: Copenhagen: Fremad, 1997), takes aim at the Danes' long-held belief in the...
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Sacked 'racist' is to appeal
Edinburgh University's self-declared "scientific racist" Christopher Brand, sacked last week after being found guilty by a university tribunal of gross misconduct, says he plans to appeal. Psychology...
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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 old Harrovian with dynastic tendencies: "An only son of prosperous parents...
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Plunder and fighting folk
Celt and Greek
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A vibrant splash on the palette
Matthew Smith
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Speaking Volumes: Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point
On Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point. The undergraduate college I went to in Bombay was so short of classrooms that it taught the arts lectures from 7.30 am to 12 noon and the science ones from...
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Will the real Mr Jinnah stand up?
Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity
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A story with a happy blending
Zoroastrians in Britain - The Good Parsi
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Left to God and freelance butchery
Liberty or Death
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A female Shangri La
Expressions and Evocations
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Universe expands as inflation soars
The Inflationary Universe - The Life of the Cosmos - Hunting down the Universe
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Chairs
University of Dundee Michael Davies, geotechnical engineer and founder of the geotechnical centrifuge research centre at the University of Wales, Cardiff, has been appointed professor of civil...