The further education performance indicators attributed (THES, February 21) to South Kent College, Folkestone, in fact related to South Nottingham College. South Kent saw an 18 per cent increase in...
Queen's University, Belfast Research contracts Dr W. Kernohan, Pounds 72,639 from Zimmer Co.UK (continuation of IBIJ audit); Dr R. Mark, Pounds 44,700 from Department of Environment Northern Ireland...
University of Durham DCL: Steven Redgrave, oarsman, sports consultant, Olympic gold medallist. DSc: Terence Burns, permanent secretary at the Treasury, former lecturer in economics at London Business...
Queen's University, Belfast Brian Hogg, professor and provost of the college of engineering at Queen's University, Belfast, has been elected to the board of the Conference of European Schools for...
Why, when reported rape is rising, are prosecutions falling? Sue Lees tells Kate Worsley that it is because the childish misogyny of the playground is still acted out in court. Take any bus down the...
Kevin Warwick believes tomorrow belongs to the machines. How can we, the human race, be so sure that just because we are in a number one position on earth that is how it will always be? At the moment...
Phil Baty talks to Will Hutton, the Observer editor who has recently added an economics professorship to his portfolio. Will Hutton, editor of The Observer and veteran economics correspondent, has...
With the smell of cordite still pungent in the air after the byelection battle of Wirral South,The THES begins today a weekly series in the run-up to the general election on those intelligence units...
Will Hutton's stakeholding society would be one in which everyone had a stake, not just the top 40 per cent. "It's about being nice to people," says Hutton. Firms would be made more accountable to...
Below one of the chancellor's wise men, Martin Weale, asks if economic forecasting owes more to luck than to skill. The Independent has identified the National Institute, to which I belong, as the...
The demotion of a member of the US navy after he refused to give a sample of his DNA to the authorities has sparked fears among civil libertarians that Big Brother is doing something ominous with the...
Looking at Don Power, it is hard to see how he differs from other US militarypersonnel. Outwardly he looks like any other young marine. But the 31-year-old father from Oregon haslost almost...
French intellectuals have responded with verve (or spurious profundity) to Anglo-Saxon derision (or spurious clarity)of their ideas. Ayala Ochert reports. The opening of EuroDisney in Paris five...
In the second of our occasional series on academics and food, reproductive biologist Roger Gosden suggests a little healthy eating. John Davies reports. On his return from a day in London to his home...
Louis Jeantet Prize The 1997 prize for medicine from the Fondation Louis Jeantet has been awarded to the following: Philip Cohen, professor and director of the Medical Research Council protein...