Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an 18th-century French novelist with a taste for aristocratic games of seduction, revenge and scandal: "Goodbye, dear friend. At the moment I feel that our reason,...
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Speaking Volumes: Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400 1800
Sadie Plant on Fernand Braudel's Civilisation materielle et capitalisme, 1400 1800 . In 1950, Fernand Braudel embarked on what was to become a long, intense, and convoluted journey. Wandering among...
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Appointments
ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Allan Stewart, principal of Selby College, Yorkshire, has been elected national chair of the EBEA. UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Brian Desmond, former human...
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Grants
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON Charities. Drs N. Abbott and G. Connolly and Prof P. McNaughton, Pounds 43,005 from the Wellcome Trust (signalling between cells associated with the cerebral vasculature: the...
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Events
YIXING TEAPOTS Two master teapot makers from Yixing, China, will demonstrate their techniques during the International Potters' Festival at Aberystwyth Arts Centre (July 14-16). Yixing county on the...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS The following will become professors from August 1: Ian Wood, senior lecturer, will become professor of early medieval history; Robert Knipe, reader in structural geology; Robert...
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Casualties mount in a barmy army
Few in universities will be surprised by the statement that time spent on research has declined since the 1986 funding changes. The demands of an increased teaching load, increased administration and...
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No CVCP 'no'vote on quality
Claire Sanders's article on the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals main committee meeting at which v-cs discussed Higher Education Funding Council for England proposals for the future of...
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How hostel subsidy distorts finances
Lucy Hodges in her summary (THES, June 9) of the recent World Bank report on higher education in Eastern Europe, quotes the example of Romanian student protest at hostel overcrowding in support for...
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Undergrads are Oxford's strength
Oxford is in so many ways all that a university ought to be, it has no centre. It does take teaching and research seriously, your editorial says (THES, June 16). As a United States citizen who has...
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Lecturers let down by pay offer
You report that Stephen Rouse, chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association, expressed surprise at the robust rejection by the unions, AUCL and Natfhe, of the recent 2.5...
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Germanic Kevins
French researchers cannot find an explanation for the sudden popularity of the name Kevin in France (THES, June 16). They have not used much imagination, having restricted their search to American...
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An investment in their future
The National Commission on Education's alternative student loan scheme is the best option, argues Christopher Johnson. The Government has succeeded beyond expectations in increasing the demand for...
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Gender as a mindbender
After reading the interview with Deborah Tannen (THES, June 9), I wondered, not for the first time, whether media treatment of her has something to do with the fact that her work is about gender. I...
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Roaming the Web for work
Should I laugh or cry? Reading the article on Professor Cheng's demotion due to allegations of plagiarism at City University, Hong Kong, (THES, 9 June), I began to wonder whether there was something...