Scaling the mountain
Thomas Mann
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The dismal science enters the lab
The Handbook of Experimental Economics
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The morbid poet and merciful friend
John Keats
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The ties that bind
Trust
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Fellowships
IMPERIAL COLLEGE. Eric Ash, director of the Student Loans Company and former rector of Imperial College; Hon-Kwan Cheng, government of Hong Kong structural engineer and pioneer of open university and...
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Events
FETISHISM. A touring exhibition from the Hayward Gallery and Brighton Museum will make its final stop at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich between October 17 and December 10. Fetishism...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ST MARTIN, LANCASTER. Alan Beattie, honorary senior research fellow, has been awarded a personal chair in health promotion. UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Peter Mathieson, director of...
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Promotions
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE. Readerships: D. L. Bader, lecturer in biomaterials and biomechanics; S. E. Curtis, senior lecturer in geography; M. J. Griffin, lecturer astrophysics; L. Hutson,...
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Appointments
QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE. Margaret Hall has been appointed chairwoman of the board of governors at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, succeeding Leslie Rodger. Ms Hall was executive director of legal...
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Don's Diary
WEDNESDAY. New Labour is in town. The bars of the Grand and the Metropole are thronged with politicians, journalists, lobbyists, fixers and spin doctors. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a left-wing historian and anti-nuclear campaigner: "So he paces ahead of us, no longer 'lonely' but still in the van - beckoning us forward to the measureless bounty...
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Tory president fights vote of no confidence
A Conservative student union president is taking legal action against her union for unfair dismissal after she lost a motion of no confidence two weeks into her term of office. The motion accused...
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Rural white paper gets thumbs-up
Howard Newby, vice chancellor of Southampton University and a member of the Rural Development Commission, has welcomed the Government White Paper on rural England, published this week, as a "step in...
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Union call for openness
Staff at Portsmouth University will be asked to pass a vote of no confidence in the chair of governors at a meeting next week. The decision follows outrage expressed at the restricted publication of...
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Launch of plan to learn for life
The Government is preparing to publish an important consultation paper on "lifetime learning", Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education and Employment, announced this week. The document,...