Money for old rope?
Are psychic powers real or bunkum? Ex-magician Richard Wiseman took science into paranormal realms Psychic powers are big business. Tarot-card readers and palmists make money out of divining your...
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A doleful prospect
Long-term unemployment and social exclusion threaten to dominate the forthcoming G8 summit. Emma Haughton reports The rise of persistent unemployment has long been a bug-bear of Western governments,...
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What does it take to be a woman?
Worldly wise 4. Judith Butler has attracted a wide following for work that redefines our ideas about gender. But does her project have a political value beyond linguistic playfulness When Gloria...
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'Too secret...too late'
The BSE inquiry last week renewed its efforts to uncover the anatomy of the country's worst ever food-safety crisis. Its chairman, Appeal Court judge Sir Nicholas Phillips, insists his "primary...
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Bookstore wars are brewing...
and the weapons are coffee and comfy chairs. John Davies on the US threat galvanising British booksellers Go into the big branch of Dillons on Gower Street in London, just round the corner from...
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CJD and the doomsday scenario
'Too secret...too late' The BSE panic began in March 1996 when ministers announced the discovery of ten deaths among young people from an "unusual" form of the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and...
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Southwood defends scientists
'Too secret...too late' It cannot be denied that things are worse than they should have been because regulations were not enforced. If the ban on giving cattle meat and bonemeal feed had been...
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Branching out
(Photograph) - Bob Fryer, chair of the government's national advisory committee for continuing education and lifelong learning, will be director of University of Southampton New College and director...
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Making utensils provided man tools of thought
A news round-up from the third conference on consciousness in Tucson, Arizona The making of artefacts by early man played a key role in the emergence of human consciousness, an archaeologist claims....
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Diffuse consciousness
A news round-up from the third conference on consciousness in Tucson, Arizona There may be no central part of the human brain receiving signals from specialist areas and integrating them to generate...
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Appointments
Leeds City Council Paul Forbes, former senior assistant director in the department of community benefits and rights and previously assistant director of education within Leeds City Council, has been...
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Fact file
* 68 per cent of all enrolments are full-time, up 3 per cent over 1996-97 * Part-time enrolments increased by 2 per cent * Postgraduate enrolments increased by 3 per cent
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Elected leader
(Photograph) - Alan John has won the vice-presidency of Natfhe. He takes office this month and will become president next year. Mr John is head of mathematics at University College of Ripon and York...
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What Labour has done so far
THES reporters assess the impact of Labour's first year of government on higher and further education and unravel how they have sold their policies to the country May 1 1997: Labour elected with 179-...
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Awards
Paul Ehrlich Foundation, Frankfurt The Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Award 1998 has been presented to David Lane, director of the Cancer Research Campaign cell transformation group, University...