Fellowships
SCRE The Scottish Council for Research in Education has awarded fellowships to the following: Ian Morris, former head of the research and intelligence unit of the Scottish Office Education Department...
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SuperJANET fights shy of backbone role
The chairman of the committee supervising the country's only existing information superhighway, the broadband academic network SuperJANET, has indicated that SuperJANET should not be seen as a ready-...
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Maltese forum
Business and political leaders gathered yesterday in Malta for the beginning of the Crans-Montana Forum. The switch from the usual Swiss venue to a Mediterranean location reflects this year's subject...
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Promotions
ST MARY'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Readerships: Chris Durston, principal lecturer, reader in history; David Worral, senior lecturer, reader in English literature. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Readerships: The...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE DLitt: Rabbi Julia Neuberger; Dame Elizabeth Esteve Coll, former keeper of the National Art Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum, vice chancellor at the University of East...
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Grants
IMPERIAL COLLEGE Charities Professor H. Morris, Pounds 226,336 from the British Heart Foundation (identification, biochemical characteristics and physiological relevance of a new nitric oxide...
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Events
TOP MARKS ART. Top Marks 95 is a new show featuring the work of students who were awarded first-class honours degrees the London Institute's five colleges. It will run until October 26 at The London...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Bruce Doern (on half-time three-year secondment from the school of administration, Carleton University, Ottawa), chair of public policy; Duncan Bruce (senior lecturer, University...
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Awards
BRITISH MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIPS The Marshall Aid Commemoration Commission has awarded scholarships, tenable at the institutions named, for two years from this month to the following students from the...
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Appointments
The Council for Hospitality Management Education The Council for Hospitality Management Education has elected the following to the executive committee for 1995/96: Chairman - Dolf Mogendorff, Glasgow...
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Investors for FE
The private sector is expected to revitalise cash-starved further education by investing in colleges for profit and importing management expertise from business. Launching the private finance...
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No cash to expand - Clarke to claw back Pounds 1.8 billion saving?
Higher education is unlikely to get extra funding for renewed expansion under a Conservative government, it emerged this week. Billions of pounds, which Tory policy shapers think could be saved by...
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Road to hell paved with upgrades
Don't get me wrong: I have not regretted for a moment my decision to buy a Macintosh back in 1984. What I wish I had not done was put the latest program on a few months ago. There I was perfectly...
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Just in time economics regulate the data race
New complexities and tight budgets will force libraries to embrace full automation, Tony Durham argues. Not all the changes occurring in libraries can be explained by technology push. As far as...
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Gold-darned predictions
The Environmental Change Unit at Oxford University have won a top award for a project aimed at extracting "nuggets of data" from large databases. The unit suggested using Clementine software to "data...