First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel that journeys to the heart of disaffected blues America... "I first met Dean not long after my...
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Higher channels
Stay media-literate with John Davies's weekly radio and television round-up. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week The Life of Birds (Wednesday 8.0 BBC1) Ten programmes with David...
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Engage with the world
US philosopher Richard Rorty thinks the academic left must jettison its navel-gazing, jargon-laden obsessions and focus on real issues such as helping the poor. Tim Cornwell reports It is one of the...
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Who sent in the police?
Did the prime minister of Canada tell the Mounties to assault student protestors in order to spare Asian leaders embarrassment? W. Wesley Pue says that if he did, he should resign On October 5, a...
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And now for The Lite News
Is the press really dumbing down or is it just that the news agenda has changed? Harriet Swain reports Shock news. Fat-cat media tycoons scrap dumbing-down trend and wise up. In other words, worries...
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When Johnny got his gun ... he loved killing
Stories of those haunted by going to war are well known, but Joanna Bourke has unearthed tales of men and women who found they exulted in slaughter In 1915, the night before joining the army, Wilfred...
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Setting an equitable price for joining a fair, civil society
Will Labour raise taxes in its second term in power? Raymond Plant will be among the first to know. Huw Richards reports Raymond Plant does not particularly enjoy speaking in the House of Lords. As a...
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Old, cold water and hot air
Andrei Kapitsa, who discovered a vast new watery world under the ice of Antarctica, says people are not to blame for global warming. Julia Hinde reports It was Andrei Kapitsa, a Russian geographer,...
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Flexible friends
John Randall outlines the aims of the QAA's new framework Introduction I am grateful to The THES for publishing in full the new framework that the Quality Assurance Agency will now develop and...
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Unesco warms to Eritrea
Paris For a few fleeting moments this week the higher education world put funding and management issues aside to consider the plight of a small newly independent nation and its embattled university...
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Laurie Taylor
"Sometimes when student notes get left behind I read them and wonder if we've been in the same lecture room", - Professor P. Taylor, international communications expert - THES October 2 INDIVIDUAL...
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Dublin
University College Dublin has been accused by the Employment Equality Agency of "generally" discriminating against women academics in promotions, a charge the university denies. In the past two years...
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Moscow
Russia's new prime minister Yevgeniy Primakov last week informed President Boris Yeltsin that student grants arrears would be paid shortly. Some 240 million roubles (Pounds 9 million) had been...
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Fernando H. Cardoso
People is edited by Harriet Swain and researched by Lynne Williams. Send all information to Lynne Williams. The THES Admiral House 66-68 East Smithfield London E1 9XY Tel 0171 782 3375 Full listings...
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Breakfast boost for Oxford college
Oxford University's continuing education college, Kellogg College, has received a $10 million (Pounds 6 million) benefaction from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The college, which has more than 16,000...