Life as a field study
Mark Redman is a rustic, holistic academic. He lives in the country, champions organic farming and lectures on and in bucolic bliss. Gail Vines reports from deepest Dorset The academic life is often...
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Reel fantasies, real crimes
Andrea Dworkin describes how she, Catharine MacKinnon and Linda Lovelace battled to prove that pornographers were similar in kind to the Ku Klux Klan In fall 1983 Catharine MacKinnon and I co-taught...
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Siaredir Cymraeg yma ?*
Lawrence M. Knowles discovers a Welshman who dreams of a Welsh-speaking campus Ioan Williams has a dream. It is to reinvent the University of Wales as the re-embodiment of the "medieval Welsh...
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British Academy
Tony Wrigley has succeeded Keith Thomas as president of the British Academy for 1997-98. Other officers elected include: M. McGowan, vice president; J. Flemming, treasurer; B. Supple, foreign...
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Appointments
Crichton College, Dumfries. Rex Taylor, professor of social policy and social work at the University of Glasgow, has been appointed director of the college. Cathy Garner, director of policy...
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Fee foes smell blood
Doesn't Sir Ron Dearing's recommendation that graduates start paying back borrowed money when their income reaches Pounds 5,000 (THES, July 25) seem to undermine his belief that graduates...
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Minister wary on devolution
A SCOTTISH parliament could take a more generous approach than Westminster to student support, but "realism must accompany idealism" in the Government's devolution proposals, Scottish education...
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Teacher trainers aim high
THE BATTLE to bring teacher training funding back in line with the rest of higher education is not yet over, higher education's teacher trainers claimed this week. Launching a consultation document...
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Clive Booth appointment welcomed
UCET has welcomed the appointment of Clive Booth, former vice chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, to the chairmanship of the TTA. Professor Booth replaces Geoffrey Parker. "Clive Booth has a...
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Welsh field centre survives
GREGYNOG, the University of Wales residential centre, will have to adjust to a new funding system from next year, but should not be in danger of closure. Fears had been expressed for its future after...
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TB's relative values
SCIENTISTS are puzzled why the BCG vaccine against pulmonary tuberculosis appears to offer little protection in some tropical countries, while boosting immunity in higher latitudes. Researchers at...
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Golden bullet fired in river blindness war
"Nanobullets" made of pure gold, coated with genetically engineered DNA vaccines and fired into the skin using a "gene gun" may sound like some gadget out of a James Bond film, but researchers at the...
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Court opens lid on campus crime
A court has ordered student disciplinary proceedings in the United States to be open to the public following criticism that universities and colleges are using secret hearings to cover up crimes on...
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'Death' doctor carries on
A CANADIAN professor of medicine accused of murder and awaiting trial is back teaching at the hospital where she was arrested. Nancy Morrison, accused of killing a patient by injection, was arrested...
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Fees foster state spirit for saving
mounting tuition fees and a rising burden of debt on students in the United States has driven the families of more than 700,000 children to enrol in state savings plans where they pre-pay university...