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The Art of the Brontes - The Brontes - Emily Bronte
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from the high point of what has been called "the poetical history of man-kind": "Wherever Krishna, the lord of yoga, and Partha, the bowman, are, I believe that there too...
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Speaking Volumes: Essays on the 'Welfare State'
Hilary Rose on Richard Titmuss's Essays on the 'Welfare State' . I suspect, like a number of women of my generation and class background, having a "career", let alone becoming an academic, was more...
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Honorary degrees
UMIST. DEng: William Johnson, emeritus professor of mechanical engineering. DSc: Kenneth Murray, molecular biologist; Noreen Murray, molecular biologist. MSc: Clifford Evans, former senior...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF HULL. Research contracts. Professor Ekkehard Sinn, Pounds 129,098 from Singleton Birch Ltd (research project involving advanced geometrics based on calcium); Professor Kenneth Swift and...
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Events
UNITY 95. The University of Huddersfield student union has organised a free festival for the local community and others to be held at Greenhead Park, Huddersfield on July 1 highlighting...
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Awards
THE WOLFSON FOUNDATION. 1994 Wolfson History prizewinners are: Fiona McCarthy for William Morris: A Life for our Time and John C. G. Rohl for The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government...
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Appointments
CVCP. Gareth Roberts, incoming chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and vice chancellor of Sheffield University, has named the final five members to complete the organisation'...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL. Martin Boddy, director of the school for advanced urban studies, professor of urban and regional studies; Lesley Doyal, director of research at University of West of England,...
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Broers set for post
Alec Broers is to become vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge on October 1, 1996. An electronics engineer and master of Churchill College, he will succeed Sir David Williams, the university...
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New Keele V-C
Keele University has appointed its first woman vice chancellor. Janet Finch, a professor of social relations and pro-vice chancellor at Lancaster University, will take up her new post in September....
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Glasgow Caledonian University sign contract with Bimota
(Photograph) - Glasgow Caledonian University has signed a Pounds 500,000 contract with Italian motorcycle manufacturers Bimota to produce a world first in the internal combustion engine market, a...
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Quality plan thrown out
Vice chancellors have overwhelmingly rejected the Higher Education Funding Council for England's plan for a single quality assurance body. The rejection at last week's meeting of the Committee of...
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Head for science
Robert May, a 59-year-old biologist based at Oxford University, pictured right, is to succeed Sir William Stewart as the Government's chief scientific adviser. He will also be head of the Office of...
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Union suffers battel losses
Students at Pembroke College in Oxford have called off their rent strike and disaffiliated from the National Union of Students, in a bitter culmination of their attempts to fight an increase in...