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An enfant terrible reaches maturity
Social science has put its wild past behind it and grown up, says Olga Wojtas The British Sociological Association is bestowing honorary memberships on its oldest and most loyal supporters as part of...
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Stalwarts honoured for their support over 50 years ... and counting
Samuel Waxman , 86, is the son of Jewish emigres from Poland. He has been a member of the British Sociological Association for 50 years, though he has never been an academic. Mr Waxman worked in...
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Queen's Birthday Honours List
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Knighthoods Roderick Castle Floud , president, London Metropolitan University, for services to higher education. Richard Lavenham Gardner , Royal Society professor of zoology, Oxford...
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Master mariner, neuroscientist and v-c honoured
Captain Christopher Elliott , who has been appointed MBE, has been ferrying scientists to and from Antarctica for 40 years, first as a crewman and then as skipper of successive British Antarctic...
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Hefce responds to cuts
Funding council chiefs were due to meet this week to decide how to advise ministers about "nationally important" academic subjects vulnerable to closure. The board of the Higher Education Funding...
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Library turns new page
The 2 million volumes at the University of London's Senate House library are to be opened to thousands more students. From August, a scheme in place since the 1990s, under which colleges buy a...
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Mind over matter?
Bournemouth University has saved one of its courses from extinction by changing its name. Registrations on the computing and psychology course were dropping off, so the department changed the name to...
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Learned Olympic bid
A new institute of sport dedicated to the study of the Olympic movement and ideals would be created as part of a London Olympic Institute if the capital was chosen to host the 2012 games, it was...
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Millionaire winner now wants to be a Napier MBA
Most people, if they won Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? , would think in terms of sports cars, designer outfits and Caribbean cruises. But when Harshvardhan Nawathe, a science graduate from Mumbai,...
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College body to shrink
The umbrella body for the leaders of higher education colleges is preparing to downsize and remould itself into an organisation mainly representing small specialist colleges as more of its members...
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Institution fined £4K for false claims
A private college in East London has been fined for making false claims that it earned affiliation to Cambridge University for offering students "the best possible educational experience in the heart...
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Back in time
Manchester University's Whitworth Hall played host to a recreation of Albert Einstein's first lecture in Britain, delivered there in 1921. The event, staged on Monday to mark Einstein Year, featured...
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Book learning out of date, says Greenfield
An urgent national consultation on the future of learning is needed in the face of technological advances that are creating a divide between bookish lecturers and their computer-centred students,...
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Lecturer wins landmark legal case
Universities that force dismissed staff to sign away their rights to sue may find that they can still be taken to court if they have not drafted the document tightly enough. In a landmark legal case...