Fellowships
LSE. Honorary fellows: John Bourn, comptroller and auditor general; William Cornish, fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge; David Goldstone chairman of Regalian Properties; Mick Jagger, rock singer...
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Chairs
KING ALFRED'S COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. The following professorial titles have been conferred: Michael Llewellyn, head of the school of science, technology and design; Alan Penny, reader in the...
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Awards
SCHLEGEL-TIECK PRIZE. The German Embassy's Translator's Association prize is shared by Ronald Speirs and William Yuill. The awards recognised Mr Speirs's translation of the political writings of Max...
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Mad cow research at risk
Scientists at the Institute of Animal Health fear that vital research on transmissible diseases, including BSE and scrapie, is under threat because of management plans to cut the workforce by nearly...
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Physics puts up a fight
A "fight for physics" has been launched by the Institute of Physics to stop 1996/97 budget cuts hitting the discipline, writes Kam Patel. Institute concern was heightened by an internal review of all...
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Currency jitters hit joint work in Europe
The director general of research councils, Sir John Cadogan, warned this week that the cost of British particle physicists' participation in the international particle-smashing research programme at...
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Antithesis
Starter for five Scourge of evasive politicians and anatomiser of the failings of the British establishment, the BBC's Jeremy Paxman might seem a natural hero for students. But not so. No fewer than...
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Accredit where it's due
Therapists are persuading universities to set up degree courses in complementary therapies. But critics are accusing them of trying to get recognition via the back door. Aisling Irwin reports. This...
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Doctors in self-help
Iain Percy-Robb and David Lloyd describe Glasgow medical school's pioneering curriculum. Undergraduates starting their medical studies at the University of Glasgow next October will follow a...
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Missile guidance
Mathematicians are great. They have recently shown us how to maximise our lottery winnings; at what stage of emptiness our beer cans are most unstable; and to walk in the rain because running leaves...
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Bad tidings
Colin McCallum, Strathclyde's director of external affairs and development, was in Canada over Christmas when his father-in-law rang to say: "I've got some bad news for you - your house is flooded."...
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Hacks on heat
Geographers may have to revise their old assurances that the climate of the west of Scotland is wet and warm. Last week's conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers...
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Tertiary tricks
Probing another stereotype, psychologists at the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education questioned fresh-faced undergraduates to find how they ensure they do well in their essays. Tender first years...
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Classic cliches
Psychologists explore behind those superficial stereotypes to find the fundamental . . . er . . stereotype underneath. A study of claims that, among orchestral players, brass players are beer-...
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Flamingo road
Forget the status symbol of a Jaguar car on a newly-gravelled drive. Derek Drummond, professor of architecture at McGill University in Montreal, thinks a better sign to watch for is the presence of a...