Cutting it in the fashion world
Be careful. Should fashion students be taught to take risks in business or to play it safe? After London Fashion Week Wendy Dagworthy advocates being extraordinary, while Angela McRobbie counsels...
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Laying their dead to rest
As forensics provides clues about the victims of genocide, Thomas Laqueur considers the motives of those involved and asks whether dissecting a body is compatible with the relatives' need to mourn My...
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Cutting it in the fashion world
Take a risk. Should fashion students be taught to take risks in business or to play it safe? After London Fashion Week Wendy Dagworthy advocates being extraordinary, while Angela McRobbie counsels...
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Eye of the beholder
“Hard-nosed publisher” Stuart Hay recently commissioned a monograph from me, although I am an unknown author. Like Hay, I’m puzzled about Valentine Cunningham’s withering view of publishers (THES,...
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Pisa
Underground excavation work has begun to try to reduce the tilt on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Michele Jamiolkowski, a geotechnics professor at Turin Polytechnic, is heading the expert team which...
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The breaker
(Photograph) - Northumberland College students Mark Watson and Janette Iredale display their entries for a tie-designing competition that was part of their GNQV art and design course. Ms Iredale won...
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Beijing
More Chinese scholars than ever are returning to work in China after completing overseas studies, the ministry of education says. The number of returning graduates has risen by an average annual rate...
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Ottawa
Canada's federal budget allows for spending of Can$1.4 billion (Pounds 578 million) on medical research and innovation over the next three years, of which Can$240 million will be directed to a new...
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Oslo
Tove Bull, rector of Tromso University, Norway, has been elected leader of the Norwegian University Council for a three-year period. She succeeds Lucy Smith, former rector of Oslo University. Ms Bull...
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Sofia
The governments of Bulgaria and Macedonia have signed an agreement that paves the way for improved contacts, cooperation and trade by including the acceptance by Bulgaria of Macedonian as a separate...
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In the news
The career of Ron Amann, chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council, has crept ever closer to the heart of policymaking. From July, as director of the new Centre for Management and...
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Glittering prizes
Fellowships of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama have been conferred on: Alan Duncan, business consultant, former managing director of the Duncan Group and governor of the academy since...
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On the move
Graham Henderson, former director of Sunderland Business School, has been made deputy vice-chancellor (academic and development) at the University of Teesside. A raft of new appointments has been...
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Washington DC
A government survey has found that fewer than half of all American teachers consider themselves prepared for the demands of working in public schools - raising standards, handling students with...
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Deep into 'bandit country'
Gerd Nonneman meets amiable Kalashnikov-carrying Yemenis in a country struggling towards unity I returned from Yemen just as the news of the fatal hijacking erupted last December, and before the...