(Photograph) - Ship shapes: James Johnson of the Natural History Museum makes a three-dimensional laser scan of a Cymatium pileare seashell collected during the voyage of Captain James Cook's...
The British Library has called on the Government to act during this Parliament to ensure that non-print publications will be stored in the national archive. A proposal drawn up by a working party...
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY. DEng: Jackie Stewart, former racing driver, chairman of the Paul Stewart Racing Team; John Browne, chief executive of BP. DLitt: David Tweedie, chairman of the Accounting...
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Robert Parker, fellow of Oriel College and lecturer in Greek and Latin languages and literature, has been appointed Wykeham professor of ancient history, succeeding W. G. G....
CHICHESTER INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Philip Robinson, senior pro-rector at Roehampton Institute and principal of Froebel College, has been appointed director, succeeding John Wyatt. He will join...
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. European Professor T. J. T. Whittaker in collaboration with Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal, Pounds 430,000 from European Commission (Islay European shoreline wave...
THE LABAN CENTRE. The Laban Centre for Movement and Dance awarded honorary fellowships to the following: Merce Cunningham, New York based-choreographer; Stuart Hopps, former associate director of...
Last week young scientists, plunging to earth in an overloaded hot air balloon, debated which of them should jump to allow one of them to float to safety. This week our great balloon debate focuses...
A voluntary clearing house for law graduates hoping to train as barristers has won the backing of some of Britain's most prestigious sets of chambers. The Bar Council said this week it was relieved...
The past month has seen two bitter rows about education. The most prominent, the Battle of St Olave's, was a heady cocktail of selection in schools with a gripping subplot about hypocrisy and about...
FRIDAY. All-night technical preparations in London for our touring student production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which we are taking to the West Bank and Gaza. Unsettling arrival in Israel:...
Over the past decades, research into higher education has developed from a small collection of studies with a narrow pedagogical orientation into a more comprehensive field encompassing a large...
Between 1983 and 1985 I held an Economic and Social Research Council project grant - the first that I had ever applied for. Since that time my research has been funded by a variety of European...
Robin Dunbar's arguments (Grey natter, THES, January 26), like those of Geoff Miller whom he cites, are persuasive. But they have a blindspot with regard to their implications for women, especially...
Just before Christmas a colleague from another university asked me to be one of his nominated referees in his application for promotion. Nothing unusual in this, I have acted in such a capacity on...