Fellowships
Cardiff University Honorary fellowships: Claude Allegre, French minister of education, research and technology; David Cooksey, chair of the university's Challenge Fund Steering Group; Ieuan Evans,...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Academy of Engineering has given fellowships to: Anthony Ball, director of materials engineering, University of Cape Town; Yvonne Barton, chairman of British Gas Asia Pacific Pte Limited;...
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Fellowships
Welsh College of Music and Drama Honorary fellowships have been awarded to: Keith Allen, actor; Roy Bohana, music director of the Arts Council for Wales to 1997; Julian Bream, lutenist; Rebecca Evans...
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Bug that bears the mark of death
While researching a strain of typhoid wreaking havoc in Vietnam, British scientists made a chilling discovery. At the heart of the typhoid bug they glimpsed the Black Death. Steve Farrar reports. It...
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Sir Ron takes Melbourne seat
SIR RON Dearing is to become one of two overseas members of Melbourne University's new governing council in 1998. It is the first time an Australian university has invited distinguished foreign...
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Cutting the red tape to catch the tigers of the east
By opting for more regulation, the Dearing committee missed its chance to improve UK higher education, says Robert Taylor Sir Ron Dearing told vice chancellors last week that if the United Kingdom...
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Whispers of ancient times speak volumes for history
The Cambridge History of China, Volume Eight - The Cambridge History of Ancient China
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French want one front in Aids fight
Ministers want more private-public cooperation to fill 'missing link' in Aids research. Jane Marshall reports French government ministers have berated drugs firms for their lack of action in fighting...
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Wole, Idi and all that jazz
Africana
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A not so special relationship
THE CLASH. US-Japanese relations throughout history. By Walter LaFeber. 508pp. Norton. Pounds 22. - 0 393 03950 1. The binational polls that regularly measure the mood of United States-Japan...
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Cities light torch of excellence
One of the most remarkable developments in the 20th century is the way modern education has become accepted as the norm throughout the world. All those who regularly attend meetings on education...
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The English have got a lovely bunch of coconuts
Voltaire's Coconuts
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Aussies mug up on European law
The University of New South Wales in Australia has established the first centre for the study of European law outside Europe and the United States. The European Law Centre will provide an Asian-...
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Hogmanay kiss mixes emotions
Wanseo Koo's introduction to the traditional British Christmas dinner was a festive Yorkshire pudding. Mr Koo, a Heriot-Watt student from South Korea, spent Christmas with friends whose oven broke...
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Mature keep away in droves
EFFORTS to improve the range of students at university appear under threat from latest application figures, which show continued steep falls in mature, overseas and sub-degree applicants. Data from...