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My little phoney
In Front of the Children
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Ecstatic dances without handbags
Club Cultures
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Honours
UNIVERSITY OF BUCKINGHAM DSc: Vaclav Klaus, prime minister of the Czech Republic; Frederick Crawford, vice chancellor of Aston University; Bridget Ogilvie, director of the Wellcome Trust. DLitt: Jung...
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Elections
THE ROYAL SOCIETY On March 14, the following were elected: Fellows Alfred Adams, professor of physics, University of Surrey; Jan Anderson, chief research scientist, CSIRO Division of Plant Industry,...
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Chairs
UMIST The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology has appointed the following chairs: Keith Hoskin, senior lecturer in accounting and finance at Warwick Business School, chair in...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Vincent Marks (above) , professor of clinical biochemistry and consultant chemical pathologist, has been appointed dean of medicine in the university's new European Institute of...
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Mike the mouth
Alumnus to be proud of No: 36 is the irrepressible Mike Fitzgerald, vice chancellor of Thames Valley University and self-proclaimed "Kenneth Tynan of higher education," after his becoming the first...
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One to one
If Gillian Shephard does not know what binary coding looks like she might want to take a peek at a table produced in a written answer from her department to Adam Ingram. The Labour MP asked her how...
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Cash back
Jim Murphy, president of the National Union of Students and a former student at Strathclyde University, paid tribute to Strathclyde students association's success in having resit fees abolished. "I'm...
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Kandy treat
Good timing being one of the basic attributes of the top-quality cricketer, one can only admire the coincidence of reports that the battle for an Australian-style Cricket Academy has been won with...
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Toilet training
The political backlash against increased female participation has gone beyond opposition to all-women shortlists. Seen in the University of Westminster's language building, a poster directing...
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Political footwork
The Dearing review of higher education is set to be a good deal racier than you might expect if Sir Ron's lecture at Brunel University this week is anything to go by. The script released to The THES...
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Major disaster
There was confusion worthy of a Feydeau farce in Hong Kong earlier this month with the simultaneous arrival of two British visitors intent on schmoozing with the locals. As two separate dinners got...
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Mystic Cheryl
At the National Union of Students' Scottish conference last weekend, executive committee member Cheryl-Ann Cruickshank accurately predicted that nobody would vote against the first motion on further...