Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. DLitt: William Clinton, president of the United States of America. Hon.degrees: Louis Blom-Cooper, appeal court judge; S. Poyntz, former bishop of Connor. UNIVERSITY OF...
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER. DLitt: William Clinton, president of the United States of America. Hon.degrees: Louis Blom-Cooper, appeal court judge; S. Poyntz, former bishop of Connor. UNIVERSITY OF...
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH. continued from last week Research grants Dr B. Kilbey, Pounds 1,551 from Medical Research Council (topoismerases of plasmodium falciparum) and Pounds 13,595 from MRC (...
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. Robert Tebb, vice-warden of Devonshire Hall, has been awarded an honorary fellowship by Leeds College of Music. UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM Honorary fellowships have been conferred...
BIRKBECK COLLEGE. Nick Bingham, formerly at Royal Holloway College, has been appointed chair of the statistics department; Nicola Lacey, lecturer and fellow of law at New College, Oxford, has been...
A prominent academic has turned down a CBE because he says the honours system perpetuates inequality and is undemocratic. Gordon McGregor, emeritus professor of education at Leeds University, who...
By January 1964, six Scottish towns had made bids to house the country's next university: Stirling, Falkirk, Perth, Inverness, Dumfries and Ayr. But an emergency resolution from Dundee Council urged...
Harold Wilson's Labour Government was still pretty new in late 1964 and so was the merged Department for Education and Science. Government papers newly released under the 30 year rule by the Public...
Nicholas Tucker surveys the crisis in academic psychology. Psychology as a field of academic study presents an ambiguous front. Take-up among undergraduates is growing. Places in A-level courses are...
Maire Messenger Davies examines TV's effect on children. Just before Christmas there was a lively press debate about a vicar in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire who told his flock not to encourage their...
Claire Alexander goes in search of the complex identity of young black Britain that lies behind the popular stereotypes. In the wake of the recent wave of media infatuation, I have to confess that it...
Ragnar Lofstedt and Rae Zimmerman report on the rise of the environmental justice movement. North American academics have recently become extremely interested in a concept called "environmental...
Michael Atiyah arguesthat scientists have been compromised by the military- industrial complex, but by working for the elimination of nuclear weapons they can reassert their integrity. Last year saw...
Few governments, if any, in Asia encourage any form of opposition. At best it is seen as a necessary evil by established governments, including many of those in western countries. At worst in several...
And so the New Year begins where the old left off. The future of higher education is again being heavily contested, with both the "how many?" and the "who pays?" arguments well to the fore. The media...
Friday. Ships sails. Have I got all the Hanukkah candles? What about my prayer book? Is the menorah packed as well? I have been engaged as the rabbi on the QE2 Caribbean Christmas and New Year cruise...