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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author whose work reflected what the footman saw: "Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is...
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Speaking Volumes: History
Olwen Hufton on Elsa Morante's History . To select a single book from the thousands which have engaged me in one way or another during the passage from undergraduate to professor is a challenging...
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A jargon-free zone for cross-pollination
Nathalie Teitler has launched a magazine forum for research students. Aisling Irwin met her. When she is not studying Argentinian women poets for her PhD, Nathalie Teitler makes truffles to sell to...
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Cyber seers
A new breed of 20-something philosophers are breathing controversy into cyberspace. Tony Durham reports from the Virtual Futures '95 conference. Music journalist Tony Marcus is talking about techno....
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Appeal
Lin Berwick has been accepted on London College's classical homoeopathy course from September 10, and is seeking assistance during term time on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. She needs someone to...
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Events
PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Final days of Part Two of the Royal College of Art's degree show includes the schools of applied art, architecture, interior design and furniture, design for industry,...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. Readerships: Ahmey Kondoz, lecturer, reader in the department of electronic and electrical engineering; P. Voke, senior lecturer, reader in the department of mechanical...
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Chairs
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY. Michael Tovey, dean of art and design, has been appointed professor of industrial design; Clive Richards, associate dean, professor of information design; Robert Pryce, pro vice...
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Rosie picture
(Photograph) - Rosie picture: Natural history illustration student Jonathan Cook and his portrait of London Zoo's Rosie, on show at the RCA.
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Appointments
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY. Barry Jackson, head of the school of visual communication design, has been appointed dean of the faculty of art, design and performing arts from August 1, succeeding John...
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Grants
THE UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Research councils: Mr E. A. Rees and Professor R. W. Davies, Pounds 138,030 from Economic & Social Research Council (economic development and centre-local...
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Someone to watch over you
Claire Sanders looks at the pressures on PhD supervisors. How would you feel if your PhD students taped their supervisions?" The question, posed by John Wakeford of Lancaster University to an...
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Take me to your leader
Aisling Irwin and Olga Wojtas journey to the heart of anthropology. Not unusually, the phone rings in anthropologist Nigel Barley's comfortable office, at the Museum of Mankind in affluent central...
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Which doctor debate
Support for the PhD by publication rather than by thesis is growing. Ayala Ochert reports. In Cambridge anyone can do it, in Oxford nobody can, and elsewhere you have to be a member of staff to do it...