Appointments
University of Abertay Dundee Neil Watson, former senior manager with the North of Scotland Water Authority, has been appointed business development manager for the wastewater technology centre....
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Awards
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography The Lindeman Award for the best paper on aquatic sciences by a scientist aged under 35 was presented in Sante Fe, New Mexico, to Chris Freeman, school...
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Closed files on open minds
Academics are wearily familiar with government obstructing their efforts to delve into official archives. But, as Lucy Hodges discovers, colleges can be equally unhelpful Should scholars be granted...
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The personal views of a 'scientific racist'
For the past few months Chris Brand, lecturer in psychology at Edinbugh University and so-called "scientific racist", has included The THES on the list of recipients for his "TgF" newsletter (TgF...
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Hale and place
Richard Wilkinson shows how good health is linked to self-esteem and a person's perceived place in the social hierarchy If toxic materials or infected food were responsible for as many deaths as...
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Old quacks and future nostrums
Phil Baty talks to Roy Porter (right), the historian of medicine whose knowledge of medieval plagues was used by a government confronting the horrors of Aids Roy Porter does not care for academia....
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A cultural evolution
In China the days of art as ideology seem numbered. Craig Clunas finds it is the burgeoning economy rather than the state that is driving the art market Is the recent death of China's paramount...
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Curry, the great British tradition
Alison Utley discovers that the relationship between so-called exotic foods and domestic fare can tell us a lot about ourselves In the new edition of her Complete Cookery Course Delia Smith found...
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So farewell then, John
He didn't convince the electorate but John Major has inspired five biographers to write about him. Brian Brivati asks the latest, Anthony Seldon, why he spent two years writing about the greyest...
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Chairs
University of Plymouth Malcolm Jones, reader in marine biology, has been appointed professor of marine biology; Roger Motte, former head of IMS, has been appointed emeritus professor of marine...
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Fellowships
The College of Preceptors The college has conferred the title of honorary fellowship on the following: David Bisbrown, former principal of Hillcrest School and Community College, Dudley, former...
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Honorary degrees
University of Central England Honorary doctorates: David Cragg, chief executive of Birmingham Training and Enterprise Council and former marketing director for further education, Birmingham City...
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The new ministers
ALAN HOWARTH: PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT ALAN HOWARTH'S appointment as junior employment minister completes a personal political circle begun when he resigned as...
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The new ministers
DAVID BLUNKETT: SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT "THIS MAKES a change. This is my first press conference since Ileft Sheffield that I've not called to try to slag off the Government."...
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The new ministers
TESSA BLACKSTONE: MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE LORDS TESSA Blackstone's appointment takes the tradition of appointing further and higher education ministers capable of holding their...