The very right mode of dress
Fashion under Fascism
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Press on, but not regardless
Letterpress - Notes on Book Design - Type
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An elusive artisan in need of revival
Christopher Dresser
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Spotting a gem or two on high ground
Jewellery of Tibet and the Himalayas
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Future's bright for basic thread of a silken past
Traditional Textiles of Cambodia
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Academic transsexual honoured for crusade
This year promises to be one of the best of Stephen Whittle's life, for not only will the Manchester Metropolitan University academic become the first person to be honoured by the Queen for his...
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Offa signals bursary battle
Students will face a "volatile market" in bursaries and scholarships in 2006 as the "great majority" of universities prepare to charge £3,000 tuition fees, Sir Martin Harris, the university access...
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'We are not in the business of warning people. We are just scientists'
Computational physicist John Rundle helped produce a map of likely earthquake hotspots It would be easy for John Rundle to say that he forecast the Boxing Day earthquake off the coast of Sumatra that...
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On the move ...
* Glasgow University has appointed two creative writing tutors: novelist and former lecturer in creative writing at Leeds University Alan Bissett, who was shortlisted for the Macallan/Scotland on...
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Time to cruise in the past lane
Einstein, Nelson and others give academics much to celebrate in 2005, writes Steve Farrar From the Battle of Trafalgar to the cosmic insights of Albert Einstein, academics will meet to mark...
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Professor feared dead
A professor at Leeds University is believed to have died in the tsunami disaster in Thailand, writes Anna Fazackerley. Sally Macgill, 53, professor of integrated environmental management at Leeds,...
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UK coasts at risk, experts say
Inadequate coastal defence systems could hamper Britain's ability to cope if a tsunami strikes, leading experts warned this week. Coastal defence specialists told The Times Higher that governments...
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Student body is growing (fatter)
The old image of stick-thin undergraduates wasting away on a diet of snacks can be put to rest this week by research that suggests that one in four students thinks they are overweight. A survey of...
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Next week
AFTER THE TSUNAMI Arthur C. Clarke on Sri Lanka, Bill Watson on Indonesia, Costas Synolakis on the future for tsunami research and Carl Knappett and Colin Macdonald on the tsunami in ancient history...
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Cash clawed back
Bournemouth University has recovered £770,000 of the £1 million it was forced to write off after a botched property deal. In 2003, plans to develop a town-centre campus were aborted after it emerged...