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Recasting Conservatism
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Over the hill at 50?
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Rainy days' CASH A team of environmental scientists from the University of Hertfordshire is seeking sponsorship for an eight-week expedition to the rain forest of Guyana in South America. They aim to...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA DCL: Claus Moser, chairman of the British Museum Development Trust, chancellor of Keele University and former chairman of the Research Committee of the National Commission...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Research contracts Professor P. York, Pounds 98,433 from Roche, Pfizer and Smith Kline Beecham (investigative studies into particle formation processes and crystal engineering...
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Events
KUBA TEXTILES The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, is presenting an exhibition of Kuba textiles which will feature early and recent examples, as well as a collection made by Wilfred Thesiger's father when...
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Ulster's restrained guardians
Paul Wilkinson praises the army and RUC's role in countering terrorism. The United Kingdom has experienced the most protracted and lethal of all indigenous terrorist campaigns in western Europe, the...
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How to pamper professors
Igor Aleksander was invited to a Californian multidisciplinary conference, or was it a three-day dinner party? My invitation to speak arrived last July and, somewhat flattered by the promise of "big...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a friend of Wagner's: "Let me repeat, now that I have reached the end, what I said at the beginning: man would sooner have the void for his purpose than be void of...
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Injustice for the probation system
Home Office proposals to remove the training of probation officers from universities, reported in The THES two weeks ago, have wider implications. They may, if implemented, threaten other forms of...
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Time for stability...
This week Sir William Stubbs sat before the Public Accounts Committee for a grilling on the financial health of his two-year-old baby, the further education sector. The chief executive of the Further...
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Fraud ends on sick note
Allegations that Greek students have faked illness, backed by forged medical certificates provided by eminent doctors, in order to transfer from universities abroad to ones at home have led to...
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Corrupt baroni meet their match
Semiologist Umberto Eco is among 77 leading Italian academics who have appealed to the country's new university minister to stamp out fixing exams in favour of powerful professors' proteges. In an...
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Party win leads to musical chairs
Higher degrees in Bulgaria are suspended temporarily because of a new law which opposition MPs say will lead to the "recommunisation of higher learning". The law repeals an Act of December 1992...