Tongue twisting and yod-dropping
The Cambridge History of the English Language
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The Royal Society
The following have been elected: Fellows Martin Bennett, professorial fellow at the Research School of chemistry, Australian National University. Iain Campbell, professor of structural studies,...
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Chairs
CHICHESTER INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Afzal Ahmed (reader), chair in mathematics education; Paul Foster (principal lecturer and head of studies) chair in English studies; Tudor Hale (head of...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Graham Upton's appointment as pro vice chancellor has been extended to July 31, 1998; Frances Young, Edward Cadbury professor and head of department of theology becomes dean...
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Events
WORKHOUSE THEATRE. Graduating students at The Poor School and Workhouse Theatre will perform a play by Robert Holman at the Workhouse Theatre, Pentonville Road. Today is about English people in the...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF READING Research grants Dr M. Drew, Pounds 154,412 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (experimental and computer modelling study of the water-structuring...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a ubiquitous naturalist: "As far as we can tell, our planet is the only place in all the black immensities of the universe where life exists. We are alone in space....
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Speaking Volumes: Madness and Civilization
Susan Bassnett on Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization . Some books have titles that compel you to read them; others ones that deter you from trying. Michel Foucault's Histoire de la Folie is...
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Chemistry PhDs fail the acid test
Doctorates in chemistry are of low quality, more students should be told earlier that they are not up to the mark, and the rest should be more rigorously supervised, according to the Royal Society of...
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Pay claim launch
Trade union Unison is to launch a claim for an across-the-board rise of Pounds 20 a week for all its 40,000 members in higher education. It has contrasted the six-figure sums paid to vice chancellors...
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V-cs confront Shephard on quality
Vice chancellors are so unhappy with the Higher Education Funding Council's proposals for a new quality assurance system that they have written to the council and to the Secretary of State for...
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Scottish rugby star Craig Joiner
(Photograph) - Bar prop: Scottish rugby star Craig Joiner, a second-year chemical engineering student at Heriot-Watt University, takes part in a blind beer-tasting session as part of an Edinburgh...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...
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Computer science defended
On top of Darrel Ince's proposal (MM, March 10) to disband computer science departments came news of the poor showing by those departments in HEFCE quality assessments. Readers leapt to the subject's...