Grants
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, SWANSEA Charities Dr M. Blagrove. Pounds 29,410 from The Leverhulme Trust (the influence of sleep loss, personality and confidence on eyewitness suggestibility); Professor A....
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Honorary degrees
NEWMAN COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION DD: Maurice Couve de Murville, archbishop of Birmingham, for his contribution to Catholic education and, in particular, the college. LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY DLitt:...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a tale of a Wilf, a Dick and several Normans: "With the life of a generous, but rash and romantic monarch, perished all the projects which his ambition and his...
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Grim truth
(Photograph) - Australian students march on the Liberal party's headquarters in Sydney protesting at the cuts and tuition changes.
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Van won't be the man at Ulster
Rock musician Van Morrison has turned down a chance to teach at the University of Ulster. The taciturn singer/songwriter had been offered a special guest lectureship at the university. Mr Morrison's...
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Space alliance
Birmingham University's astrophysics and space research group has agreed to collaborate with AEA Technology. They will work together on space technology projects, train students together and do joint...
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There's the rub
(Photograph) - Over the summer students are going to cathedral camps around the country to clean up - in the case of Richard Lamey, from Altrincham, Cheshire, by dusting York Minster's lectern.
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Biotech booster
Universities, firms and training organisations were this week invited to bid for a slice of a Pounds 5 million initiative aimed at supporting embryonic biotechnology firms. The Department of Trade...
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Soton does U-turn over Athens
In an attempt to keep its troubled Athens campus open, Southampton Institute of Higher Education is asking undergraduates on maritime courses to complete their studies in Greece. This moves comes...
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Test lifts bar on Mars proof
The Martian question that everyone wants answered - did the Antarctic meteorite that Nasa has claimed contains signs of ancient life really come from the red planet? - could be solved by a piece of...
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From cradle to coffin . . .
Chris Johnston talks to students about the world of summer jobs. Summer is a time when university students can relax for a couple of months, but many trade the stress of assignments and exams for a...
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Academic attack on library cuts
More than 400 United States scientists and scholars have condemned further funding cuts for university and college libraries and demanded that the government set up an office for scientific and...
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Grimsby at the cutting edge
In response to Max Beloff's disparaging article about media studies and other vocational courses being only fit for keeping people off the streets (THES, August 9), may I add the following? We offer...
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Greece's slaughtered Jews
Mark Mazower commemorates a group of Holocaust victims so efficiently erased by the Nazis that little trace ofthem remains. In Europe, some ghosts are more invisible than others. Millions of visitors...
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Swansea inquiry
A special committee of inquiry has been established by Swansea Institute of Higher Education in the wake of the resignation of the principal Gerald Stockdale. The committee, headed by institute...