Academy gets down to business
FIRST steps towards setting up a University for Industry were taken this week with the appointment of an advisory group from education and business. The 13-strong group, which held its first meeting...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a doctor who defied a dictator: "One hot spring evening, just as the sun was...
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Poet who gave sound to white
Selected Poems
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Anton the authentic
Anton Chekhov
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Home is where the art is
Steven Spielberg - Steven Spielberg
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Slayed Author lives to purge imperial guilt
African Voices, African Lives
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Harpoons, ropes and fisher folk
Sea Hunters of Indonesia
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Anthropologising the West
Essays on the Anthropology of Reason
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Small but perfectly formed
Degrees of Freedom - Life at Small Scale
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Decomposers in life's recycle
In the Company of Mushrooms
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Findings of a lost world
Evolution and Extinction of Dinosaurs - Dinosaurs of the East Coast
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The ultimate lawbreakers
Volcanoes
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Chairs
Coventry University. Professorships: B. Hocking, international relations; C. Hoskyns, European studies; J. Lorimer, physical chemistry; D. Walton, applied chemistry. Sheffield Hallam University Clive...
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Honorary degrees
Queen's University, Belfast. The following honorary degrees have been awarded. DSc: Erwin Gabathuler, Sir James Chadwick professor of experimental physics, visiting scientist at Cern (1991-92),...
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Fellowships
Rose Bruford College. Honorary fellowships: Simon Callow, actor; Bill Bryden, director; Freddie Jones, actor; Corinne Rodriguez, casting consultant. Fellowship: Gary Oldman, actor. New College,...