Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER DLitt: Michael Jackson, controller BBC2; Sheila McKechnie, director of Shelter. DSc: Ivo Babuska, mathematics research professor at the University of Maryland, US; Brian...
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Events
KATHE KOLLWITZ This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of Germany's most talented draughtswomen and printmakers. A small exhibition of Kathe Kollwitz's etchings and woodcuts will...
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Correction
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE C. M. Reed was listed on January 20 as having been promoted to a chair. He was in fact promoted to a readership in information technology law.
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KENT The following appointments take effect on April 1, 1995: P. A. Clarkson (reader in differential equations at the University of Exeter) has been appointed to the chair of...
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Liberte, egalite, venalite
According to political scientist Yves Meny, the recent corruption scandals in France have very deep roots. Anne Corbett reports. As the wave of French corruption allegations known as "Les Affaires"...
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Applied philosophy
Stella Hughes talks to Isabelle Stengers, the Belgian scientist who dared to doubt. In the often acrimonious dispute over the social role of science, few enter the fray having chosen laughter as...
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Puppets on a string
Many of the intellectuals who denounced Hitler and later proved such loud critics of the West were covertly manipulated by one of Stalin's master spies. Stephen Koch explains how he followed the...
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Clever measures
Hans Eysenck takes a look at new attempts to provide a more solid scientific basis for intelligence testing. IQ testing has been extremely successful on the practical level -- predicting academic...
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Withdraw the claws and think
The National Audit Office report on the financial health of higher education institutions in England makes fascinating reading. It shows how they have navigated policy changes resulting in a 44 per...
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Chugging about China
In 100 years, perhaps, the far west of China will be linked to Xian via bullet train, but for the present one makes do with a diesel making its slow, unhurried progress through an endless desert. The...
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Grant us our daily bread
Student Paul Morris asks for enough money to live on but no more It seems the trend among student is to jump on the Labour Party bandwagon and suggest that Tory grant policy is remarkably unfair....
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Too much Merlot, too little Marlowe
One of the effects of the Thatcherian managerial revolution in the new universities has been to create a class of senior-level managers which awards itself generous "remission" from teaching. In many...
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. The first working day of the New Year, and the official first day of my new lecturing post at Lancaster. I decide to prioritise emptying my previous office and will make my appearance...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
Gordon Kirk (THES, January 6), raises two issues which need to be resolved regarding the external examiner system -- the duality of role as external examiner and course consultant, and the duality of...
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Missing variations on a funding theme with a bitter twist of experience
Your items about quality assurance (THES, January 13) and the concern of vice chancellors, seems remote and out-of-tune with my recent experiences. I offer two examples. A former HMI who used to work...