Big whack
What David Blunkett taketh away - in the form of Pounds 1,000 tuition fees - Ronald McDonald giveth. The firm is offering up to 50 grants of Pounds 1,000 each to students who have worked for them for...
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Honorary degrees
Lancaster University DLitt: James Deardon, curator of the Ruskin Collection at Bembridge and Brantwood until 1996. LLD: Elizabeth Robins, justice of the peace and chairman of the Education Trust Ltd...
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Chairs
University of Wolverhampton Ilana Crome, of the university's school of health sciences department of addiction studies, has been appointed professor of addiction psychiatry. John Moores University...
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Appointments
Henley College George Laverty, deputy principal of Newbury College, has been appointed principal. University of Nottingham Keith Jones, academic secretary at the University of Liverpool, will succeed...
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Randall honour
The efforts of John Randall, chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency, have finally won recognition in the sector - but not in the field of quality assurance. He is to receive an honorary...
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Spokes man
Last week's visit by Tory education spokesman David Willetts to The THES involved no demands on our car parking space. He arrived on his bike, in training for riding 199 miles, starting today, from...
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Well drilled
Alumnus to be proud of No 181 is outback driller Stephen Hindley, praised in the public prints this week for using a rusty brace and bit to save an Australian Rules football player from death,...
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Merger of two equals four
The University of East Anglia's school of physics is closing and transferring its staff and students to the University of Bath in September. This will result in Bath expanding staff and student...
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Art dresses itself in fashion's clothes
A PICTURE in Paris Vogue earlier this year showed a model in a dress by Christian Dior Haute Couture with the caption: "Comme un Jeff Koons, une porcelaine kitsch." The dress and model were supposed...
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Images in their time and place
A fundamental reconsideration of art history as an academic discipline is taking place at Sussex University, its researchers claim. The way forward in art history, says department head Craig Clunas,...
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'Baby Earth in the making' sighted
Astronomers using a British telescope have sighted "a baby Earth in the making" orbiting a nearby star. "This is going to make an Earth-type planet," said Helen Walker of the Rutherford Appleton...
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Electric car gets a push from petrol
Motorists could drive around the world on just one gallon of petrol, according to researchers at the University of Keele. Kevin Kendall and his colleagues have developed a clean, efficient electric...
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'Cyclone' device cleans diesel exhaust
Inspired by the Dyson vacuum cleaner, students at the University of Hull have designed a device that removes tiny soot particles from diesel exhausts. The device relies on a "cyclone" to separate the...
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Road management can cool queues
Traffic jams could be eased if patterns of their formation were addressed by road management programmes, say researchers at the Middlesex University Business School. Jams develop according to one of...
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Take a deep breath for a shot of immunity
Injections for immunisation, dreaded by many, may soon be replaced by inhalers or nasal sprays, according to researchers at Aston University. Oya Alpar, senior lecturer at Aston's school of life and...