Happy, chez Heller
While simultaneously on the phone to Chicago and trying to find a book on his desk, the man - who was a total stranger to me -asked: "Are you interested in the history of European cities from the...
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A negative result
David Edmonds on the campaign to outlaw affirmative action in the US. James Meredith wanted to study at his local state university. But when he sought to enrol there in 1962, President John F....
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Harmonising Hellenist
John Davies meets Pat Easterling, Cambridge's first female regius professor of Greek. It is hard to find a bad word said about Patricia Easterling. The newly appointed regius professor of Greek at...
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Public `paying for commercial research'
Universities are leaving themselves open to the accusation that they are "subsidising commercial work from the public purse" by not recovering costs from externally sponsored research, Graeme Davies...
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Testing time
(Photograph) - Testing time: Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, an engineering lecturer at Cambridge University, finally got rid of his L-plates on his 13th driving test last week. The 40-year-old passed with...
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Funders forced to rethink quality
An acrimonious public row erupted at the annual conference of the Higher Education Funding Council for England this week when quality - which had originally been left off the agenda - took centre...
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Active minds keep atrophy at bay
A combination of good education and continuing mental activity may help delay the onset of dementia, according to psychiatric researchers. A report from the Erasmus University in the Netherlands in...
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Nurse training deal
Vice chancellors and National Health Service officials have reached an agreement over new arrangements for nurse training. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and the NHS executive are...
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Seda recognitions
The Staff and Educational Development Association says it has been approached by 36 UK institutions of higher education seeking recognition for their training programmes for new teaching staff. Seda...
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Redundant academic ruling defied
The Robert Gordon University has rejected an industrial tribunal ruling to reinstate the first academic made compulsorily redundant in Scotland. Earlier this year, the tribunal ruled that the...
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Sales pitch
To comfort himself when he cannot get enough money for the Hubble telescope, Dr Williams reads about his favourite explorer, Scott of the Antarctic. He obviously takes heart from Scott's similar fund...
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Keyed up
John Maynard Smith, speculating on the appreciation of music at a conference last week, described his friend J. B. S. Haldane, eminent scientist, philosopher and one-time Communist Party member, who...
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Book early
A new business opportunity seems to have arisen for unscrupulous publishers wanting to make the most of the next research assessment exercise. The exercise will take account of articles and books...
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Paying Peter
Delegates at the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference could have looked a little closer for value for money from its general secretary Peter Smith. Figures just released for 1993...