(Photograph) - Urbane future: Martin Gaskell, the urban historian and director of Nene College who became the new chair of the Standing Conference of Principals this week, aims to develop further...
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY The 1995 Dexter Award from the Division of the History of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and the Dexter Chemical Corporation has been presented to William Hodson...
Association of Scottish Colleges The following have been appointed board directors: Ray Baker, chairman, Fife College board of management; Michael Webster, principal, Perth College; James Thomson,...
James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis about earth's evolution must be reassessed by scientists, argues Nick Petford. Gaia James Lovelock's provocative theory of the earth is back on the agenda with the...
Sunday. To church with family (Enid, four, and James, two) as usual. Support for coming week gleaned from hymn "Forth in thy name O Lord I go, my daily labours to pursue". Today's daily labours...
Eric Forth, the new higher education minister, has called into question assumptions by university heads and captains of industry that renewed growth in higher education is needed. A Government...
Alan Howarth, who crossed the floor of the Commons to join Labour this week, is the second ex-further and higher education minister to say his disillusionment with Conservative politics was linked to...
Chicago University's long-running success in producing Nobel laureates continued this week with the award going to Robert Lucas for his theory dealing with the "rational expectations" that underpin...
American feminist icon bell hooks talks to Sian Griffiths about race, gender and her rise from humble Kentucky roots. I have borne five children and I seen 'em mos all sold off into slavery, and when...
British foreign language learning policy lags behind the rest of Europe and must be updated, argues Robert Clark. As I took plane to Stockholm for the European Commission's conference on "Language...
An Italian historian claims that Churchill had a wartime correspondence with Mussolini and urged his death to cover it up. Paul Bompard sifts the evidence. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was shot...
Are hieroglyphs making a comeback? Andrew Robinson examines ancient and modern writing. Writing is among the greatest inventions of human history. Yet it is a skill most writers take for granted. We...
Retired Harvard professor Annemarie Schimmel tells Jennie Brookman why she defended Islamic fury against Salman Rushdie. Annemarie Schimmel seems an unlikely person to have caused the biggest...
John Gray argues for new ways of political thinking that address the deep cultural diversity of the age and replace the bankrupt ideologies, both Left and Right, of the past. The public cultures of...
It has been a long hard summer in the recruitment office. The hostile media reports made a complex task even more complicated and so much ill-informed comment has been damaging. How much so will...