Appointments
University of Essex Michael Nolan, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, privy councillor and chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, has been elected chancellor. University of Birmingham...
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Chairs
University of Birmingham John Barnden, formerly at New Mexico State University, has been appointed to the chair of computer science. John Blake, professor of applied mathematics, has been appointed...
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A garlicked isle, set in an olive oil sea
The food on our plates has been transformed since the war by a host of political, social and economic flavours. Continuing our series on food, Brian Harrison runs through history's menu King George V...
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From cowboys to coyboys
More than half of all Americans claim to be suffering from a serious social disease - shyness. Hard to believe, but Philip Zimbardo, a leading shyness researcher, blames the communications age and...
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The essential guide to sexuality
Universities can be a haven from ignorance and prejudice for transsexuals. But the academic debate about whether it is possible to change sex rages on. Phil Baty reports When Susan Marshall started...
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Secret cash for Ulster
A MYSTERY benefactor has donated Pounds 2.5 million towards the University of Ulster's "peaceline" campus in west Belfast. The university has refused to reveal the donor, believed to be an individual...
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Hate probe
The University of Central Lancashire has won Pounds 28,204 from the British Library to investigate racism on the Internet.
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Art to art
Art resources abound on the web. Two useful springboards are the sites maintained by Laura Baigorri at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (www.iua.upf.es/baigorri/ arte) and Guillem Ramos-Poqui,...
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Cities link
Manchester higher education institutions are joining in the Infocities project with Antwerp, Barcelona, Bologna, Helsinki, Nice and The Hague. Funded by the European Commission, the project will use...
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Big time: Oxford University Press's Pirye Prize
(Photograph) - The winner of the Oxford University Press's Pirye Prize, Ruskin student Miranda Millward's six-foot high Untitled No9, based on a birthday cake decoration, goes on display in its...
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Oxford Business School to get Pounds 20m
OXFORD University's new business school is to be bolstered by another benefactor. Neither the donor's identity nor the size of the donation are yet known, but a university spokesperson said an...
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The big catch
(Photograph) - The big catch: Oxford University invited high-flying inner-city state school pupils to a summer school this week in the hope persuading them to apply. But, for all the games in the...
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Fact File
* 14.6 per cent of staff joining higher education institutions in 1995/96 were from outside the sector * Almost half of all European Commission-funded staff are in biological, mathematical and...
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Iron pride: "The Engineers Art"
(Photograph) - Iron pride: "The Engineers Art", an exhibition to mark the 20th year of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, will include an iron arch taken from a Manchester mill by UMIST's Historic...
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Observatory may go home
Preliminary talks are underway which could see the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) at Cambridge returned to its original London home by the millennium. The National Maritime Museum at Greenwich,...