Grants
UNIVERSITY OF WALES COLLEGE OF CARDIFF Research grants Dr M. Woodhouse, Pounds 195,800 from the Medical Research Council (visual and cognitive development in infants and young children with Down's...
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Events
GERMAN RELATIONS Postwar British cartoons depicting Germany are being exhibited at the University of Wales, Cardiff Student Union Building, Park Place, until May 31. The 75 cartoons concentrate on...
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Chairs
BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY Kevin McGuinness, former legal practitioner in Ontario, has been appointed to a sponsored chair in business law. DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY Personal chairs have been awarded to...
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Alan Newell, deputy principal and head of the Micro Centre, has been awarded the Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and Technology.
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Appointments
HEFCE Barbara Stephens, director of operations, West Cumbria Development Agency, has been appointed to the Higher Education Funding Council for England. Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for...
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Power plays and sister acts
David Walker talks to Partha Dasgupta (right), the Cambridge economist who has focused on the third world's economic dynamos: women. Squatting; cooking; suckling; spinning; water-carrying; herding;...
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Neo-Darwinism has never claimed to be a theory of everything
Bad weather, a defeat of Manchester United and Mondays are all blamed on the government of the day. Brian Goodwin seems to have elected what he calls "Neo-Darwinism" to government status in the...
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Neo-Darwinism has failed as an evolutionary theory
Darwinism is a theory of evolution based upon inherited variations in organisms and natural selection of fitter variants to produce species adapted to their habitats. Twentieth-century biology added...
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Adrift in a qualifications sea
Ros Ollin argues for a regulatory anchor to keep NVQs steady. The report, Learning to Succeed after Sixteen, by the National Commission on Education reiterates the need for schools, colleges and...
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Party-less but singing at Queen's
Under the heading "Anthem row rumbles on" (THES, May 5) I found to my surprise that I was, "in fact" a member of the "middle-of-the road Alliance Party". I am quite sure that the Alliance party...
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All you need is love
Claire Sanders reports on some blunt advice from Europe, particularly the Netherlands. As the assessors from the funding council and the auditors from the quality council poke and probe their way...
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Shephard raid that went wrong
I recently heard Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, on the BBC World Service attempting to justify a reduction of school funding and the resulting deterioration of the teacher/pupil...
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Build on expertise of bodies
It is to be hoped that the subtle and sensitive negotiations aiming to streamline the national approach to quality assurance are concluded quickly, and in such a way as to minimise the expenditure of...
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Students set their pace on funding policy
May Day saw the NUS release details of its latest student hardship survey. The survey found that one in three students actually miss meals because of hardship; one in four consider dropping out...
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Students set their pace on funding policy
I was dismayed to read your front-page story "Follow my Labour" (THES, May 5). Not only are issues in the article confused, I am inclined to believe that the text was conveniently put together to fit...