A professor's posthumous promotion
Saint Foucault
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An all-too-brief unveiling
Women and the Political Process in 20th-Century Iran
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Sappho's unlamented sisters
Slip-Shod Sybils
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Little girls and little women
What Katy Read
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Spinning a golden yarn
The First Industrial Woman
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An epistolary suffragette
Elizabeth Robins
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Gay rebels and queerer norms
Out in Culture - A Queer Romance
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who once drove an ice-cream van and worked in a funeral parlour: "Then the back door slammed and my mother marched in on a gust of wind, the knot of her...
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The third great balloon debate
For the past two weeks we have loaded up our metaphorical hot air balloon, first with young scientists and then with young social scientists. Each time the balloon was overloaded and plunging to...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE. Ian Howard, artist and course director in drawing at the school of fine art, Duncan of Jordanstone College, has been appointed professor of fine art. KINGSTON UNIVERSITY. The...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON. John Palmer, chairman of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and vice-president of the...
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Honorary degrees
GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY. DLitt: Richard Wilson, actor and director. DSc: Kenneth Calman, chief medical officer. DTech: Allan MacDonald, director of regional marketing, British Aerospace. LLD:...
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Students scorn levy sidetrack
Student leaders have demanded that vice chancellors continue to pressure the Government over higher education funding instead of debating one-off undergraduate levies. NUS president Jim Murphy, and...
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University funding
The Association of University Teachers has again called for a Royal Commission to lead a national investigation in to the "nightmare problem" of university funding, writes Alison Utley. The AUT said...
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Key issue review due 'shortly'
The Government is poised to produce plans for tackling key higher education funding and policy issues, but the plans are expected to be broadbrush rather than detailed. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of...