The tanks that think
Simon Midgley takes the lid off the Fabian Society in the latest in our series on intelligence units The Fabian Society, which is affiliated to the Labour party, is the oldest socialist society in...
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Creche barriers
A lack of childcare can limit choice for staff and students. Katrina Wishart looks at whether things have improved sinceour last survey almost a decade ago The campaign to create a nursery for...
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Madness in the method
It is not scientific inquiry that produces anti-science feeling but distorted ideas of what it means to be 'scientific', argues Mary Midgley Particular myths that have come down to us from the...
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Sights of special scientific interest
Scientists talk about objects in the natural world that have most touched them in a new series of Seven Wonders of the World, the BBC's bid to challenge popular misconceptions about science and...
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Chairs
University of Sussex The following have been promoted to professorships: Vivien Hart, reader in American studies, former librarian at Hamilton College in New York; Ladislaus Lob, reader in German,...
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Grants
University of Glasgow Research grants Professor P. Kemp, Pounds 45,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council (additional funding to core grant on urban studies); Dr D. Diver, Pounds 86,483...
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Honorary degrees
University of Oxford DCL: Roman Herzog, president of the Federal Republic of Germany; Martin Jacomb, chairman of the British Council; Peter Taylor, former Lord Chief Justice of England. DLitt:...
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Awards
City University, London C. Henderson, professor of petrology, has been awarded the Schlumberger Medal for 1996 by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain. The award recognises scientific...
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Fellowships
Royal Society of Edinburgh The following were elected as ordinary fellows of the society: Ian Alexander, regius professor and head of department of plant and soil science, University of Aberdeen;...
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Correction
Last week's article "Bullies in the common room" (page 6) said that staff at Staffordshire University had been surveyed and bullying found. In fact the survey asked part-time students about bullying...
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Hug of love
(Photograph) - Hug of love: student clutches a sculpture from Wimbledon School of Art, which is exhibiting work from the first five-years of its technical arts degree course at the Lyttelton, London...
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Fact file
Of first-degree new entrants, 93.1 per cent were studying on a full-time or sandwich basis. 51.2 per cent of first-degree new entrants were female. 44.8 per cent of students aged under 21 were living...
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What war can be good for
Next week the funding debate is set to dominate the 75th conference of the National Union of Students. Harriet Swain looks at the battles fought on floor and platform The year is 1968: the National...
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Scotland's boost for Labour
Opposition to the Labour leadership of the National Union of Students Scotland proved ineffectual at its conference last week. Student associations at Perth College, Glasgow Caledonian and Paisley...
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NI student support lost to buildings
Student leaders in Northern Ireland have condemned the Government for transferring unexpected savings of Pounds 1.8 million from the student support budget to the maintenance budget for schools and...