Honours
Royal College of Physicians Graham Harding, professor of neurophysiology at Aston University, has been awarded honorary membership of the college. Prix Escalibur 1997 The prize was presented in...
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Appointments
University of Sunderland David Puttnam, film maker, visiting professor and governor of the London School of Economics, has been appointed chancellor. Dartington College of Arts Josie Sutcliffe,...
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Asian losses fear
ECONOMIC crisis in Southeast Asia could cost universities and colleges more than Pounds 50 million in two years, writes Harriet Swain. Latest estimates from the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Governors 'not accountable'
Unaccountable governors and poor financial managers are damaging the cost-effectiveness of higher education's multi-billion pound building activities, a House of Commons Public Accounts Committee...
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Peers attack foreign study policy
Peers have criticised the Department for Education and Employment for failing to encourage more British students to study abroad. They say the DFEE has not thought through its international strategy...
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Fellowships
Royal Academy of Engineering The following have been awarded Anglo-ߣߣÊÓƵn postdoctoral fellowships to work for a year at British universities: Russell Boyce, University of Queensland in Brisbane...
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Venture cash for entrepreneurs
The government and the City joined forces this week to announce three new venture capital funds worth Pounds 240 million. The move, the latest in a stream of measures aimed at boosting...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a former US soldier who grasped - but not at straws: "If you really want to...
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Passionate artists in the laboratory
Passionate Minds
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Speaking Volumes: Catch-22
Tom Cannon on Joseph Heller's Catch-22 . Initially, I chose The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. It is the kind of book an academic interested in management ought to choose. My main research interests...
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Elemental Uffizi
Molecules at an Exhibition
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Wonderbras, inflation and π
The Joy of π - The Universe and the Teacup
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Apple pie in the sky?
Achieving Our Country
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Mr Green goes to Washington
American Foreign Environmental Policy and the Power of the State
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Consorting with deluded Belgians
On Specialness