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Maxwell moves
Maxwell Irvine, who became principal of Aberdeen University in 1991, has been appointed vice chancellor of Birmingham University from October 1996. He will succeed fellow physicist Sir Michael...
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Hard drive needed
Bill Lindsay of Strathclyde University's education faculty has warned that a teacher recruitment drive "of dramatic proportions" is needed to underpin Labour leader Tony Blair's vision of providing...
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Triple headache for accountants
Access funds, always objects of student scepticism, have begun to inspire fear and loathing among university accounts departments. In the dock alongside them is a more familiar villain, the Higher...
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Money for old Ropa
The wildly popular director of research councils, Sir John Cadogan, is said to be hopping mad at journalists continually writing what he regards as negative stories about the work by the Office of...
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Bitter pill
From the British Medical Journal of 100 years ago, advice to school leavers contemplating studying medicine: "No one will deny that the prizes are great and that those who win them find their way...
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Streetwise
Who would you trust the numbering of our houses to: a mathematician, a philosopher, a writer, an architect or an "uncomplicated ordinary citizen"? J. N. Hunt, mathematician at Reading University, has...
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Into the limelight
(Photograph) - Gilbert Smith (left), deputy director of research and development at the Department of Health and the National Health Service Executive and professor of social administration at the...
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Award for best annual report
The University of St Andrews has won this year's THES/KPGM award for the best annual report from a United Kingdom university. The award was presented by Grant Macrae, senior partner in KPMG, in...
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Cavalier males court debt
Male students are less concerned about going into debt than female students and more prepared to contribute towards their mainte/nance costs, according to a student finance survey at Leicester...
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Row over choice of examiner
A part-time PhD student has challenged a university's absolute right to select its external examiners. Roger Coghill, from Gwent, has asked the Queen as visitor to adjudicate in a row with Surrey...
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Torrie collection belongs to public
An art collection, whose works Edinburgh University contemplated selling during its financial crisis, belongs to the public, the Court of Session in Edinburgh has ruled. While the university was...
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Stargazers learn at a distance
Liverpool John Moores University is to build a telescope that will sit on the Canary Islands but be controlled remotely by astronomers in the United Kingdom. The one-metre telescope will be funded by...
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