History's swollen congregation
Why are church pews empty but bookshelves devoted to the history of religion packed? Simon Targett reports Today, it is more a spectator sport than a participant sport." So says Patrick Collinson,...
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Honorary degrees
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY DUniv: Deborah Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire, patron of Capel Manor Horticultural College; Anish Kapoor, sculptor; Bryan Davies, MP and shadow minister for further and higher...
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Faith and the flag
It is often assumed that religion strongly influences nationalism. But Tony Claydon believes faith can dissolve nationalism as much as cement it Consideration of the links between nationalism and...
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From amento Zealots
THE HARPER COLLINS DICTIONARY OF RELIGION Edited by Jonathan Z. Smith and William Scott Green with The American Academy of Religion HarperCollins, 1,154pp, Pounds 40.00 ISBN 0 00 6967 8 At the...
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I believe...
"Intensely" is Patrick Collinson's reply to the question of how he experienced religion as a child. "We were an undenominational evangelical Christian family,"he recalls. "Wewere associated with...
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Pennies from Heaven
David Jeremy looks at the business world's debt to the other world Money, rather than religion, arouses popular interest in 1990s Britain. With scratch cards, lottery tickets, and share options,...
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Government lines up learning for jobless
The Government is set to pilot a radical "learning on benefit" scheme next year which could encourage unemployed people to study while looking for a job. The scheme would be a substantial softening...
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Closure threatens marine centre
A national marine biological station has warned that it faces closure because of budget cuts from the funding councils. John Davenport, director of the University Marine Biological Station Millport...
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From Plato to Pluto
Golden Labrador Alf this week gained his Dundee University philosophy department attendance certificate, conferred by university principal Ian Graham-Bryce. Alf has been coming to philosophy classes...
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Getting to the giving stage
A unique programme piloted by the Red Cross is enabling refugees to train to counsel other asylum seekers. Alan Thomson reports. The British Red Cross is pioneering a unique higher education project...
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Trust is key to Chechen peace
Boris Yeltsin may have boosted his chances of success in the second round of Russia's presidential elections next month by securing a Chechen peace deal, but the road to a lasting solution to the...
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Gulf war in quality assurance
The furore created by the publication of the first report from the joint planning group for quality assurance in higher education has exposed the very considerable gulf that exists between the...
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Spinning right out of control
It may have provided juicy soundbites for newspapers and politicians, but the spin the ESRC put on our findings about grammar in schools does no one any favours, warn Christopher Brumfit and Rosamond...
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Treasury eyes spy uncrowded rooms
The Government has been handed a powerful new weapon in its battle to prove that universities are not underfunded, with the issue this week of a report from the National Audit Office. The report The...
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Noble prizes
Alumni to be proud of No 54 and 55 are those fine upstanding exemplars of the hereditary principle, milords the seventh marquesses of Bristol and Bath (what is it about these places in the West...