Truth behind the lines
Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World
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TV's social signals
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
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Ubiquitous Tebbit fails to perform
State and Society
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Unseating the seats of male power
No Distinction of Sex
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a work which describes a novel use for liver: "So (said the doctor). Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?" The winner of last week's competition, who correctly...
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Speaking Volumes: Studies in the History of Education
Gary McCulloch on Brian Simon's Studies in the History of Education . The books that have shaped my academic development in the field of the history of education have fallen into three camps: the...
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Nouveaux hommes commit old sins
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
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Darts, dogs and dusting
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
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Flickering brilliance
A conference can make excellent raw material for a multimedia production - but do not let the cameras kill a living event, Peter Fowler warns. The idea of producing a CD-Rom floated to the surface at...
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Tracks to peace on a bird's back
Imagine sitting at a computer terminal, punching in a secret code and seeing before you the coordinates of a variety of birds in their migratory flight between their European summer home and African...
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G'day for Moscow
Australia's open university is to offer an Australian business degree to students in Moscow who will undertake their studies via the Internet, writes Geoff Maslen. The project is the result of...
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CVCP opens media links
Journalists in the United Kingdom will have much wider access to higher education through two free Internet services being launched by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. ExperNet is a...
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Hot Wires
Exposed The Museum of the History of Science has launched a World-Wide Web service which includes photographs from the 1840s and 1850s, among the 150 images for viewing at low and medium resolution.(...
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Open space for anytime learning
Dispersed trainers are logging on to conferencing-based masters modules. Many institutions now run distance-learning courses. However, the Advanced Learning Technology programme offered by the Centre...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF READING Readerships: John Abraham, reader in sociology; Jennifer Ames, reader in food chemistry; Grenville Astill, reader in archaeology; Leszek Frasinski, reader in atomic and...