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Visible hosts and numerous guests
Archaic Cyprus
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF YORK. DUniv: Carmen Callil, founder of Virago Press and managing director of Chatto and Windus (1982-93); Margaret Drabble, writer and editor of the fifth edition of The Oxford...
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British Academy
Officers for 1995/96 will be: Sir Keith Thomas (president); Professors G. Beer and P. Haggett (vice presidents); J.S. Flemming (treasurer); Professor B. Supple (foreign secretary); Professor D....
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Appointments
CVCP. J. Maxwell Irvine, principal of the University of Aberdeen, has been appointed to the Council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals from August 1 for three years. UNIVERSITY OF ST...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL. Research Contracts. Dr J. Donovan and Professor P. Dieppe, Pounds 244,096 from the Department of Health (INSAIDS) knee pain in the elderly in the community: should INSAIDS be...
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Events
TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION. The first international technology and education in the social sciences conference will be held at the University of Stirling, September 5-7. Speakers will include: Peter...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF HUMBERSIDE. Jack Adams, pro vice chancellor (development), professor of educational development; Rosina Jones, dean of the school of international marketing and communications,...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who, 21 years ago, did nothing to help assuage the anxiety of nervous seaside swimmers: "The fish faded from view. But, kept from sinking into the deep by...
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Speaking Volumes: Pleasure and Danger
Lynne Segal on Carole Vance's Pleasure and Danger . Flat on my back in 1984 (having ruptured a disc during peaceful - if richly fantasmagoric - slumber), I read a collection of essays which helped to...
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Brain &
Huw Richards suggests (THES, July 21) that the proposed new sports scholarships should be given a new name. Why not Bannister scholarships, after one of Britain's greatest sportsman who showed how it...
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Lucy set the pace, not Bob
Following man's early footsteps", indeed (THES, July 21). I am resigned to archaeologists describing the whole of early humanity as "man", but doesn't The THES have guidelines of gender-neutral...
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Staff governors' role
David Charter's article on staff governors like the beginnings of an archaeological dig, unearths issues of much deeper significance. Should the governance model of universities and colleges be based...
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Quest for an IQ test
James Tooley's proposal that children should be issued with an IQ certificate deserves more serious thought than that given to it by Richard Pring. The proposal has considerable merit, but is capable...
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Quest for an IQ test
May I insert one or two conceptual points into the debate on intelligence testing (THES, July 7, 14 ) before it takes off again on predictable lines? Establishing what is intelligence is a conceptual...