Ringing the changes
(Photograph) - Michelle Owen, a painting and decorating student at Bridgend College, Mid Glamorgan, is one of a group which will spend the next 14 months restoring a local clock tower so that it can...
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Sideswipe
(Photograph) - Sideswipe: Dave Lewis's pictures respond to controversial issues raised by an exhibition on the photographic legacy of anthropology, "The Impossible Science of Being", organised by the...
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Science targets reprieve
Universities and colleges struggling to fill science and engineering courses may be able to avoid funding penalties for under-recruitment. The Higher Education Funding Council for England has decided...
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Awards
PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF SCIENCE AWARDS The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has awarded sums to the following: John Baruch, department of industrial technology, University of Bradford...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY Osman Durrani, senior lecturer at the University of Durham, professor of German; Christopher Baugh, reader in drama at Goldsmiths, professor of drama; John Flower,...
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Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST Research Grants Dr B. Graham, Pounds 196,511 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (study of RF driven hydrogen discharges); Dr D. Cleland, Pounds 140,759...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN MUniv: Richard Balharry, naturalist and conservationist; John Graham, former vice-chairman of the education committee and chairman of the leisure and recreation committee.
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Appointments
NEW HALL, CAMBRIDGE Anne Lonsdale has been elected president, succeeding Valerie Pearl. Mrs Lonsdale was the University of Oxford's first director of external relations and played a founding role in...
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Wellcome closes wallet
The Wellcome Trust is extending its two-year freeze on new bids for university building projects to highlight its "great disappointment" at the cuts imposed by Government on university capital...
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Mergers may face monopoly test
Universities planning mergers with further education colleges could find their plans referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission. A growing number of colleges are known to be in merger talks...
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Nigerian chemist forced to quit Britain
A Nigerian PhD student conducting important research in to renewable natural resources at Bradford University is being forced to leave the United Kingdom and abandon his work. Jonathan Obaje is a...
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Chock-a-block
(Photograph) - Chock-a-block: New York based artist Ik-Joong Kang with "Buddha eating chocolate", one of the exhibits at his "I am not what I am" exhibition that opened at Leeds Metropolitan...
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Picking up the peaces
Michael Prest listens to frustrated UN general-secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali give Oxford's Cyril Foster lecture. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian secretary-general of the United Nations, is a...
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Cinema verite?
Tim Cornwell reports on the perils for academics of relying on Hollywood's version of history. Hollywood's take on history is back in the news with the latest work of the man called, for good or ill...
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Britain's urban gardener
Architect Richard Rogers has a vision of greener, healthier British cities; a vision the powers-that-be do not share. Kam Patel talked to him about Britain's disregard for culture. If an architect's...