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ROYAL COLLEGE OF ARTS Deanna Petherbridge, an artist who writes on art, architecture and drawing, has been appointed professor of drawing from September 1995. Deanna Petherbridge has held sessional...
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Euro network crisis
A shake-up in Europe's academic networking organisation has followed the resignation of its president and executive committee, writes Helena Flusfeder. Dissatisfaction among members with the way the...
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Web 'bomb recipe' student disciplined
Dundee University is to mount an internal publicity campaign on its computing code of conduct following the discovery that a student published an alleged bomb recipe on the university's Internet...
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Publishers opt for site licence deal
In a bold bid to break the vicious circle of rising journal prices and cancelled subscriptions, academic publishers and the funding councils have agreed a pilot scheme under which the entire United...
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A solar-powered miniature radio transmitter
(Photograph) - Peace dividend: a solar-powered miniature radio transmitter is mounted on the back of a stork as part of a joint Israeli-German research project. Transmissions are monitored by...
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Key code team deny secrecy
Royal Holloway College academics have defended their research on controversial "key escrow" systems which could be used by government agencies to monitor private phone calls, faxes and email. They...
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The new bank that likes to say yes
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
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Light shed by lone scholars
The Humanities Research Board was established by the British Academy in April 1994 following the Government's decision not to set up a Humanities Research Council. This was done with the support of...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a work which describes a novel use for liver: "So (said the doctor). Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes?" The winner of last week's competition, who correctly...
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Speaking Volumes: Studies in the History of Education
Gary McCulloch on Brian Simon's Studies in the History of Education . The books that have shaped my academic development in the field of the history of education have fallen into three camps: the...
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Nouveaux hommes commit old sins
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
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Darts, dogs and dusting
As the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing propels gender issues to the top of the international agenda, Stella Hughes (right) describes the fury in France ignited by perceived male...
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Unclear route for the rest
GNVQs fail to make the grade on three counts, Alan Smithers argues. England and Wales, indeed the whole of the United Kingdom, vitally need a good applied education route for educational reasons. We...
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Scots funding formula
John Sizer of SHEFC wants to know if there is a case for treating the same research rankings differently depending on the subject. But he has not told us what the funding councils are doing to ensure...
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Go tell it to the employees
Competence-based training is not new to the Scottish vocational and education and training scene. Assessments based on the ability to demonstrate and do, and assessment and education and training...