Old quacks and future nostrums
Phil Baty talks to Roy Porter (right), the historian of medicine whose knowledge of medieval plagues was used by a government confronting the horrors of Aids Roy Porter does not care for academia....
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A cultural evolution
In China the days of art as ideology seem numbered. Craig Clunas finds it is the burgeoning economy rather than the state that is driving the art market Is the recent death of China's paramount...
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Curry, the great British tradition
Alison Utley discovers that the relationship between so-called exotic foods and domestic fare can tell us a lot about ourselves In the new edition of her Complete Cookery Course Delia Smith found...
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So farewell then, John
He didn't convince the electorate but John Major has inspired five biographers to write about him. Brian Brivati asks the latest, Anthony Seldon, why he spent two years writing about the greyest...
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Chairs
University of Plymouth Malcolm Jones, reader in marine biology, has been appointed professor of marine biology; Roger Motte, former head of IMS, has been appointed emeritus professor of marine...
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Fellowships
The College of Preceptors The college has conferred the title of honorary fellowship on the following: David Bisbrown, former principal of Hillcrest School and Community College, Dudley, former...
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Honorary degrees
University of Central England Honorary doctorates: David Cragg, chief executive of Birmingham Training and Enterprise Council and former marketing director for further education, Birmingham City...
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The new ministers
ALAN HOWARTH: PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT ALAN HOWARTH'S appointment as junior employment minister completes a personal political circle begun when he resigned as...
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The new ministers
DAVID BLUNKETT: SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT "THIS MAKES a change. This is my first press conference since Ileft Sheffield that I've not called to try to slag off the Government."...
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The new ministers
TESSA BLACKSTONE: MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE LORDS TESSA Blackstone's appointment takes the tradition of appointing further and higher education ministers capable of holding their...
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The new ministers
KIM HOWELLS: PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR LIFELONG LEARNING KIM HOWELLS first entered the then Department for Education and Science in 1968 as a radical student invited to meet then-...
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The new ministers
BRIAN WILSON: SCOTTISH OFFICE MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND INDUSTRY BRIAN WILSON, MP for Cunninghame North, becomes Scottish Office minister for education and industry, marking the joint remit of the...
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IQ man faces axe after child sex letter
Edinburgh University's self-styled "scientific racist" psychology lecturer Chris Brand is today facing a university tribunal which could call for his dismissal. Mr Brand has been suspended from...
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New lava, new danger
(Photograph) - New lava, new danger: Scientists are blaming volcanoes such as Kilauea on Hawaii (above) for destroying civilisations and altering the climate (page 7). But the chaos is even worse...
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Get in training for huge student hike
The prospect of a compulsory training scheme for lecturers has prompted vice chancellors to set up a working party on teaching chaired by former Oxford Brookes vice chancellor Clive Booth. The group...