Seeing red
(Photograph) - Seeing red: Dorrie Halliday, a multimedia artist, led a multimedia project at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester last month. A new Multimedia Access Centre will open in...
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David Womack is keen to learn of any organisations funding innovative research into the use of young children's intuitions of numbers to aid in their mental mathematics. He has carried out similar...
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QMU appoints principal
London University's Queen Mary and Westfield College has appointed Adrian Smith as its new principal to take over from Graham Zellick on September 1. Professor Smith is currently head of the maths...
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Fellowship
Medical Research Council The council's clinical scientist fellowship has been awarded to Paul Little, University of Southampton. It is the first time that general practice has attracted such an award.
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Grants
University of Birmingham (continued) Research contracts Dr D. Weaver, Pounds 40,455 from Magnox Electric (radiological site contamination and characterisation); Dr M. McDonagh, Pounds 59,007 from...
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Fact File
The higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1996/97 reveal that: 7 per cent of those gaining a first degree obtained a first class honours award, and 41 per cent obtained an upper second -...
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Fashion statement
(Photograph) - Fashion statement: Alice Daley was one of six De Montfort University photography students to work on a publicity campaign organised by Lincolnshire Health Promotion's Smokefree Lincs...
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Place pledge for 12-year-olds
THE University of Abertay Dundee has launched a recruitment drive aimed at 12-year-olds. An agreement signed by the pupil, parent, school and university will guarantee the pupil a university place...
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Teaching institute lays cards on table
A RADICAL shake-up of teaching across higher education gets under way next week as proposals for an Institute for Learning and Teaching are aired. The proposals are in a consultation document from...
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Rise brings academics' pay in line
Clinical academics are to this year receive a 4.2 per cent staged pay rise, compared with a staged 3.8 per cent offered to non-clinical academics. The 4.2 per cent is in line with the rise in pay for...
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AUT joins fight for academic freedom
Lecturers will be asked to pledge their support for University of Central England vice-chancellor Peter Knight, who refuses to destroy a library book said to contravene the Obscene Publications Act....
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Birkbeck rises to quiz challenge
Birkbeck College has laid its University Challenge ghost to rest by beating Northampton to reach the TV quiz final. The Birkbeck team beat Northampton 5 points to 245 in the contest screened on...
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Crop genetics comes under scrutiny
Nuffield Council of Bioethics launched a consultation this week to consider the ethical and social implications of the genetic modification of crops. It wants views on issues ranging from UK...
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Academics seek greater copyright protection
The Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society launched its declaration on academic writers and academic rights this week. It includes calls for authors' names always to be associated with their works...
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Goldsmiths names new warden
London's Goldsmiths College has appointed Ben Pimlott as warden. Professor Pimlott, professor of politics and contemporary history at London's Birkbeck College, will take over from Ken Gregory when...