Bone of contention
Has the record of writing in ancient China been skewed because the more durable bone and bronze used for communication with the dead survived, while the bamboo and wood that would have been used for...
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Spit and say 'phew! lacquer'
Excavated manuscripts of the past 50 years allow a glimpse of the religious rituals of the classical Chinese civilisation's elite. Donald Harper reports on a lost religion Over the long duration of...
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Julian Axe
Julian Axe, former secretary and registrat at the medical college of St Bartholomew's Hospital, has been appointed secretary to the Imperial College School of Medicine.
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Honorary degrees
University of Strathclyde DLitt: Peter Howson, Scottish painter. DSc: Bob O'Connell, managing director of Merck Ltd LLD: Patrick Lally, lord provost of Glasgow. King Alfred's College, Winchester...
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Appointments
Human Genetics Advisory Commission Sir Colin Campbell, vice chancellor of Nottingham University is to chair a new commission. It will consider the broad social, ethical and economic consequences of...
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Awards
The Fraenkel Prize in contemporary history for 1996, presented by the Wiener Library, London, has been awarded as follows: Jeffrey Herf (United States) and Marion Kaplan (US) shared the prize open to...
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Union threats unlikely to work
Staff still unhappy about pay, students alarmed at the prospect of fees and vice chancellors squeezed in the middle. Funding pressure built up at v-cs gathered in London this week to discuss the...
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Evans above!
Wales may no longer export coal and steel, but the new Political Studies Association's Directory of Staff suggests that the trade in academic political scientists is still going pretty well. It is...
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A call to Arms
Whether or not ethnicity predisposes you to certain types of career, names might. Jane Arms certainly has a surname that seems to fit her. She returns to ߣߣÊÓƵ this month, after four years at LSE...
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What a coo
A real coup for The University of Central England in last month's Shakespeare lecture. To offer a biting analysis of the failings of British management, they secured as speaker Sir Alistair Morton,...
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Plato's outed
Glasgow University students clearly have little time for the Platonic ideal. A poster put up by the Campaign for the Highest Education, promoting Plato's view that "The life without examination is a...
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Cash sweeteners
The most innocent gesture is in danger of being misconstrued these days amid concern over standards in public life. At the Scotcat lunch, Jim MacCallum, vice principal of St Andrews University,...
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Experience counts
Not just a historian, but the heaven-sent (by way of Texas) dream of the lonely octogenarian. Young Cambridge historian Bryan Rigg, whose research on German Jews found an original and effective...
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Absolutely zonkers
Both an alumnus to be proud of (no 80 in the series) and a practitioner of the literary sideswipe is Sean Thomas, son of novelist D. M.Thomas and a graduate of University College London's Bartlett...
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Esteve-Coll is to retire
Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll (pictured right) is to take early retirement from her post as vice chancellor of University of East Anglia after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She arrived in...