Nordic nadir for nepotism
A BOOK published in Denmark earlier this year, The World's Best Educational System (Verdens bedste uddanelsessytem: Copenhagen: Fremad, 1997), takes aim at the Danes' long-held belief in the...
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Sacked 'racist' is to appeal
Edinburgh University's self-declared "scientific racist" Christopher Brand, sacked last week after being found guilty by a university tribunal of gross misconduct, says he plans to appeal. Psychology...
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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 an old Harrovian with dynastic tendencies: "An only son of prosperous parents...
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Plunder and fighting folk
Celt and Greek
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A vibrant splash on the palette
Matthew Smith
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Speaking Volumes: Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point
On Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point. The undergraduate college I went to in Bombay was so short of classrooms that it taught the arts lectures from 7.30 am to 12 noon and the science ones from...
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Will the real Mr Jinnah stand up?
Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity
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A story with a happy blending
Zoroastrians in Britain - The Good Parsi
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Left to God and freelance butchery
Liberty or Death
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A female Shangri La
Expressions and Evocations
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Universe expands as inflation soars
The Inflationary Universe - The Life of the Cosmos - Hunting down the Universe
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Chairs
University of Dundee Michael Davies, geotechnical engineer and founder of the geotechnical centrifuge research centre at the University of Wales, Cardiff, has been appointed professor of civil...
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Honorary degrees
University of Edinburgh Doctor honoris causa: James Clyde, lord of appeal in ordinary, senator of the College of Justice and former chancellor's assessor; Bridget Ogilvie, director of the Wellcome...
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Appointments
Harrogate College Malcolm Rossiter, principal of Huddersfield Technical College, has been appointed principal and will take up the post in September succeeding Peter Clarke. University of Dundee...
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Fellowships
King's College, London Honorary fellowships: Struther Arnott, principal and vice chancellor, University of St. Andrews and former member of the MRC biophysics unit at the college; Robert Hider, head...