Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk. EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www2.echo.lu IT(esprit) Contact:...
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Battle to keep colleges black
Supporters of black colleges and universities in the United States have leapt to their defence after a series of scandals and financial mishaps hit their credibility. Black colleges were once the...
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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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Cooperative society
The International Islamic University of Malaysia is far from the intolerant institution portrayed in a recent THES article, says Subki Bin Ahmad Shabbir Akhtar made several allegations against the...
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Swanning around on the river
Julia Hinde meets the warden of the Queen's swans, Christopher Perrins Swanning around on the river. The Queen's swan warden is rather looking forward to the next week. Surrounded by publishers'...
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Spinning out of control
The Global Age - Globalisation in Question
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Chronicle of a death untold
Conspiracy theories about the death in a plane crash of a leading Indian nationalist at the end of the second world war will persist until the British Foreign Office releases papers on the incident....
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Speaking Volumes: Mimesis
John Fuegi on Erich Auerbach's Mimesis . It seems madly improbable that Mimesis should have been written at all. Its author was a German-Jewish intellectual and it was written in German in Istanbul...
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Visions of a synchronised continent
This week's Royal Society 'Science in Society' meeting, Science Funding: The European Dimension, covered both national and EU-wide issues. You can hear it all at THESIS, The THES Internet Service (...
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Turbines turn on British white heat of technology
Materials scientists in Cambridge and Wales are designing high-performance materials that could give British aeroengine makers the edge over competitors abroad. Project leader Colin Humphreys of...
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You've come a long way
The Scottish renaissance of the 18th century was a remarkable development. Its original contributions to modern thought deserve the attention they have received. What is less well known is that the...
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Sex as a method
In the second of our series on young researchers, Julia O'Connell Davidson tells Harriet Swain how using sex as a teaching aid led her to study the murky world of prostitution For Julia O'Connell...
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Brutality management
As the carnage in Bosnia ends, Richard Clogg asks if there are lessons in an earlier episode of ethnic engineering. Twenty miles of carts I with exhausted, staggering men, women and children,...
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Branded an outcast
The dismissal of Christopher Brand will not end speculation on the link between race and intelligence. Julia Hinde reports Last Friday's decision by Edinburgh University to sack self-proclaimed "...
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Intellectual seeding
Ravi Dayal charts the progress of the world's third largest publisher of books in English No one quite knows how many publishers of books there are in India, but estimates place the number at about...