Lord Runciman at the Royal Society
(Photograph) - Eminence grise: Darwin loitered in the background as Lord Runciman (above), fellow of the British Academy, and John Maynard Smith (below), fellow of the Royal Society, hosted a joint...
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Highly coloured remarks
The racism I faced wasn't a very violent form. . . it was much more the patronising tone with which people dealt with me. It was as if to say, 'we don't let many of you in so you should be grateful...
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Figure it out
The position of non-Caucasians in higher education remains uneasy, discovers Pat Younge, despite the seemingly encouraging application statistics that have recently become available. In 1986 the...
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Netties anonymous
Are some people addicted to the fast expanding Internet? Mark Griffiths argues the case for research. With the numbers of online computer users more than doubling over the past two years, it has been...
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Bonnie mots
Olga Wojtas reports on the task to digitise Auld Scots. The impact of technology has now reached medieval Scots. For almost 80 years, editors of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue...
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The perpetual outsider
Anita Desai's latest novel is the first she has written out of India. Andrew Robinson went to meet her. Anita Desai is a novelist read in several languages besides English, a winner of literary...
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Apocalypse now?
Bruce Hoffman fears that the Tokyo gas attack could herald the start of a lethal era of religious terrorism. Last month's deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground marks an historical...
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FE dispute needs flexible friendship
I agree with David Bunch's rejection of "gratuitous personal attacks" (THES, March 24) but note he goes on to describe managers who do not share his view of the FE dispute as "faltering voices". As a...
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Levy the loaded
Last week the Labour leaders of the National Union of Students began to ditch the union's commitment to free education. At the annual conference they announced that there would be a "review" of NUS's...
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Fair pay should be on display
The survey of vice chancellors' pay (THES, March 24) was both informative and timely. As pay talks begin for higher education staff who are not academics it is difficult to absorb the shock-horror of...
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Grasp the nettle
Student leaders split last week over whether their members should contribute to tuition fees. I have just returned from my third and final National Union of Students conference. I feel exhausted, as...
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Etzioni: friend or foe of women's freedom?
If Gerard Kelly's article (THES, March 24) gives an accurate account of his views, Etzioni presents a deceptively gender-neutral vision of society under Communitarianism. He is reported as saying...
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Genial observer of lab animals
Kam Patel talks to the man who more than any other has made the scientist a subject of social study, Bruno Latour. A nervous Bruno Latour casts an eye around the Great Hall at Imperial College,...
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Three into two semester sums
So the Government has finally recognised that it is going to have to put more money into education. In his speech last week to "Middle England", the Prime Minister emphasised the need to provide...
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Don's Diary
SUNDAY. I'm sitting in the comfort of an Amtrak coach up the Hudson river to Albany, thinking: Why am I doing this? I've been in New York state since Friday evening and already my stomach aches from...