Awards
J. J. THOMSON MEDAL The Institute of Electrical Engineers has awarded the J. J. Thomson Medal to Joseph Helszajn, professor in the department of electrical and electronic engineering at Heriot-Watt...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS Paul Marginson, senior lecturer in industrial relations at the University of Warwick, has been appointed to the chair in human resource management and employment relations; George...
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Events
AGE OF GOETHE A diverse collection of prints from an extraordinary era in German culture will be on show at Djanogly Art Gallery until December 20 ranging from romantic images of mythology to the...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Charities. Dr J. Franklin, Pounds 66,159 from West Midlands Health (hormone receptor expression and function in human pituitary tumours); Drs Nicholl and Ramsden, Professor A...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF WALES COLLEGE OF CARDIFF Readerships: Michael Bloor, formerly senior lecturer in the school of social and administrative studies; Gillian Douglas, senior lecturer in Cardiff law school...
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Budget blight on universities
Universities and colleges are expected to find more private funding to cope with cuts amounting to Pounds 500 per student over the next three years, under Budget plans announced this week. Big...
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Creche course for a top scientist
Dear Robert May, Next time a bunch of women invites you, as chief scientific adviser to the Government, to address its conference on female careers in science, try a little preparation before you...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from one of the oldest known scriptures: "This is the great never-born Spirit of man, enjoyer of the food of life, and giver of treasure. He finds this treasure who knows...
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Speaking Volumes: The Allegory of Love
Helen Watanabe- O'Kelly on C. S. Lewis's The Allegory of Love . It all comes back to me - the physical excitement, felt somewhere in the digestive tract, of sitting in the Aula Maxima in University...
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Debt defaulters go walkabout
The inability of universities to keep track of individual students is becoming a problem for the Student Loans Company, a National Audit Office report reveals. The report, The Operations of the...
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Loans scheme heads for rocks
The Government's proposals for a new semi-privatised student loans scheme were roundly condemned from all sides and across the political spectrum this week. Members of the Conservative Higher...
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Bayrou resists student outcry
(Photograph) - French education minister Francois Bayrou renewed his promise of an emergency plan to redress funding inequalities between universities after the cabinet met on Wednesday to review...
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A spot of art searching
As a dead cow and its calf draw the crowds at the Turner Prize show, John Davies talks to this year's crop of art students to discover the sentiments behind the sensational. As crowds flock to the...
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Choices for the chosen
Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok has a proposal for a divided faith. For decades Israeli society has been under threat from the Arab world. The danger of attack is part of daily life in the Holy Land. Yet the...
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Ring pull
Simon Targett reports on the growing popularity among students of an activity normally associated with battering brains rather than expanding them. It was a second round knockout. The Irish...