On the scent of Fragrant Harbour's pungent history
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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The eye on the tiger
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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Antithesis
At the risk of encouraging HRH: Exam Howlers by the end of June, please.
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Queen's Birthday Honours
Knights Bachelor Jack Edward Baldwin, Waynflete professor of chemistry, University of Oxford (for services to organic chemistry); Nicholas Dominic Cadbury, Cadbury Schweppes plc (for services to the...
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Appointments
Lincoln Theological Institute Martyn Percy, former chaplain of Christ's College Cambridge, has been appointed director of the newly established institute for the study of religion and society in...
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Chronicler of deaths foretold
Director of the Wiener Library and eminent Jewish academic David Cesarani talks to Huw Richards about the importance of history to his race. At a library table a student pursuing her research is bent...
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On the up
(Photograph) - On the up: The University of Derby, soon to open a Pounds 7-million learning centre, is likely to be allocated more money and fewer students under the Higher Education Funding Council...
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Cornwall College and South Devon College may merge
* Cornwall College and South Devon College could merge, it was announced this week. Talks have begun on plans that could lead to a new "university centre" in Cornwall, college heads said.
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Replicant
Spotted in Heriot-Watt University's ever-informative Internet ߣߣÊÓƵ (www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/irn/irn.html): the peer-reviewed, online Journal of Memetics has been launched at www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-...
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Excellent move
Peter Gibbins is leaving his chair at Exeter University to become director of the Oxford-based Virtual Centre of Excellence in Digital Broadcasting and Multimedia Technology (www. digital-vce.com), a...
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Fact file
* Funding council grants were up 1.3 per cent to Pounds 4,452 million - 42 per cent of all income at UK HE institutions * Academic fees and support grants were up 10.8 per cent to Pounds 2,511...
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EC does it
European Commission member Edith Cresson this week opened an Internet site run by and for EC students (www.campus-voice.com).The web site offers detailed information on universities, job...
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The roaring world
"The Equator is a menagerie lion running around the Earth." Exam howlers, please, to Antithesis by the end of June. Alcoholic prizes to be won.
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The Cinderella syndrome
Nothing separates wealthy from poor students so much as summer balls. Harriet Swain reports HEDONISM is hard when you have been up since the early hours cleaning offices. But while some students this...
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Lancaster admits reckless spending
AN INTERNAL report chronicling the "reckless" management of Lancaster University, which slid into debt during an ambitious expansion programme, is being considered by the university's governing body...