Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST Research Grants Dr B. Graham, Pounds 196,511 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (study of RF driven hydrogen discharges); Dr D. Cleland, Pounds 140,759...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN MUniv: Richard Balharry, naturalist and conservationist; John Graham, former vice-chairman of the education committee and chairman of the leisure and recreation committee.
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Appointments
NEW HALL, CAMBRIDGE Anne Lonsdale has been elected president, succeeding Valerie Pearl. Mrs Lonsdale was the University of Oxford's first director of external relations and played a founding role in...
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Wellcome closes wallet
The Wellcome Trust is extending its two-year freeze on new bids for university building projects to highlight its "great disappointment" at the cuts imposed by Government on university capital...
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Mergers may face monopoly test
Universities planning mergers with further education colleges could find their plans referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. A growing number of colleges are known to be in merger talks...
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Nigerian chemist forced to quit Britain
A Nigerian PhD student conducting important research in to renewable natural resources at Bradford University is being forced to leave the United Kingdom and abandon his work. Jonathan Obaje is a...
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Chock-a-block
(Photograph) - Chock-a-block: New York based artist Ik-Joong Kang with "Buddha eating chocolate", one of the exhibits at his "I am not what I am" exhibition that opened at Leeds Metropolitan...
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Picking up the peaces
Michael Prest listens to frustrated UN general-secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali give Oxford's Cyril Foster lecture. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian secretary-general of the United Nations, is a...
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Cinema verite?
Tim Cornwell reports on the perils for academics of relying on Hollywood's version of history. Hollywood's take on history is back in the news with the latest work of the man called, for good or ill...
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Britain's urban gardener
Architect Richard Rogers has a vision of greener, healthier British cities; a vision the powers-that-be do not share. Kam Patel talked to him about Britain's disregard for culture. If an architect's...
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Grey natter
The human brain is a social brain, according to Robin Dunbar, who challenges the conventional assumption that language evolved with men to enable them to hunt. Instead, he argues, it emerged with...
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Explain tarot and learn to teach
As manager of the Kingsway Centre and the person responsible for the alternative cultures courses in our leisure programme for this year, I feel I should answer some of the points you made (Opinion,...
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Culture of consumerism rather than participation
Student leaders from leading research universities spell out why they think top-up fees are a disaster. The draconian cuts now facing higher education are making the once shunned concept of top-up...
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The wonder of blunder
Lucy Hodges discovers how to benefit from one's errors. Oscar Wilde said experience was the name we give to our mistakes. If only that were true. Far too many people are paralysed by their mistakes....
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The sprint into print
Whatever else is being cut back in the thrifty 1990s, it certainly isn't investment in university presses. John Davies reports. Edinburgh has one but Glasgow hasn't. Durham hasn't but Exeter has....