Backlash to race attack
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System is broke but not broken
So ends 1996. Four years of hard work yielded a welcome Christmas present for many in terms of improved research assessments. Months of campaigning and lobbying produced a little more cash for...
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Penalised for making it
AFTER the emotional responses to the research assessment exercise results last week, attention shifts to the financial implications. The quality research funding formula is not yet known. It is...
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Before Babylon's end
The Ancient Near East c.3000-330 BC
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Studies in monumental flesh
Lucian Freud
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Whose 'life' is it anyway?
The Dictionary of National Biography 1986-1990 - The Seductions of Biography - History and Biography
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First impressions
The opening lines of this week's book were penned by an author who now permanently resides in Highgate: "In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses - and even great ladies,...
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While around the world campuses were plagued by death and violence
In the year that memorial tables to the four colleagues murdered by Concordia University professor Valery Fabrikant were unveiled, there were several reminders that universities are not immune from...
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Chairs
University of Leeds Inge Bates, senior lecturer and director of the centre for the study of post-16 developments at the University of Sheffield, developmental chair in education and work; Peter...
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Honorary degrees
University of Hertfordshire DSc: Brian Corby, retiring chancellor, former chief executive of the Prudential Assurance Company and the first chairman of the Association of British Insurers, president...
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Cardiff leaps up table
The University of Wales, Cardiff, which rose 20 places in The THES research assessment rankings this year, is set to receive degree-awarding powers from the Privy Council next year. The powers will...
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Appointments
Association of Commonwealth Universities The following have been appointed to the council for 1996-97: Chair: Brenda Gourley, vice chancellor and principal, University of Natal, South Africa. Vice...
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News: 1996 was the year of waiting for Dearing. While politicians had a breather, campuses heaved with rows over cash, cows and hackers
Dearing: Daze in wait On February 19 higher education came to a hiatus when Education and Employment Secretary Gillian Shephard announced that Sir Ron Dearing was to head a Robbins-style inquiry into...
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Grants
University of Edinburgh Research grants Dr E. Fraga, Pounds 148,702 from EPSRC (automated synthesis of large complex process flowsheets); Professor J. Ponton, Pounds 156,075 from EPSRC (automatic...