Compound fractures
Student funding for university hospitals is under review. Peter Richards welcomes some of the changes, but asks if the academic backbone of clinical education is near breaking point. The NHS "Reforms...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF HUMBERSIDE D.Litt: Nicolas Varey, chairman of the Royal Hull Hospitals Trust. D.Sc: David Drewry, director of the Natural Environment Research Council. LLD: Antonio Ruberti, member of...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Research contracts Professor I. Hindmarch, Pounds 72,000 from Bayer AG (activities of daily living project); Dr J. Bowler, Pounds 165,000 from Rolls-Royce plc (flaw...
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Events
POSITIVE LIVES An exhibition documenting how HIV has changed all our lives will be held at the Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, until February 11. The exhibition, the...
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Chairs
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE Alan Norrie, senior lecturer at the school of law, University of Warwick, has been appointed to the Drapers' chair of law. Katherine O'Donovan, professor of family...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF HULL Alan Pugh, professor of electronic engineering, has been appointed to serve on Nato's scientific and environmental affairs division's collaborative research grants programme....
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Dusk heralds the night
Writer Taslima Nasreen, who fled Bangladesh for the West after fundamentalists threatened to put her to death for her views on the Koran, asks if we are returning to an age of barbarism. We hear, we...
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A known subversive
Five and a half years ago, the wife of an Oxford academic was deemed such a threat to the military government of Burma that it placed her under house arrest. Today the world will discover if it feels...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a chemist: ". . . This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of the me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question...
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Speaking Volumes: Tom Paine's Pamphlets
Harvey J. Kaye on Tom Paine's Pamphlets. I have testified in these pages and elsewhere to the influence upon me of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class, Barrington Moore's Social...
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Dock landed
Liverpool John Moores University signed an agreement this week with property firm London and General to take part in a Pounds 100 million science and technology park development in Birkenhead. The...
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Animals saved
Scientists at Dundee University have this week reported the promising first-year results of a Pounds 3 million drug development programme which is expect to reduce radically the use of laboratory...
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Grant pledge snub
The Government came under fire from local authorities and education charities this week for breaking a promise to review discretionary awards before the New Year. Information issued recently by the...
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There she blows
(Photograph) - The Royal Yachting Association's Seamanship Foundation has donated six Hunter Duette yachts to Southampton Institute to run the Young Skippers scheme. They are just part of a donation...
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Gene genius
Two British researchers are among the winners of the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine. Robin Lovell-Badge of the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research and Peter...