Honorary degrees
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES David Dilks, vice chancellor of the University of Hull, has been awarded an honorary degree by the academy in recognition of his work on the history of 19th and 20th...
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Swift response to the uncertainty principle
Consortia are coalescing around new distribution channels that threaten old ways of delivering information. Consortia are very much a la mode in North American librarianship. Developments in...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a bishop with no faith in reality: "For after all, what deserves the first place in our studies, is the consideration of God, and our duty; which to promote, as it...
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Emotions trapped
The Wellcome Trust has split Pounds 800,000 for research into neurological disorders between five institutions, including the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford,...
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Queen's banned IRA victim
The spectre of terrorism has returned to haunt Queen's University, Belfast, in spite of the precarious peace that still persists in the province. Two weeks ago Sean Devlin was shot dead in front of a...
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Pulped days, blurred nights
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Chris Johnston samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. University administrators may think freshers' week is for helping new students settle into unfamiliar...
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Universities 'must learn to network'
Universities must learn from multinational companies and create new types of networks both inside and outside the academic world, according to Hans van Ginkel, vice president of the Conference of...
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Cutting off research's oxygen supply
Of the various proposals that are being floated before the Dearing committee the one to concentrate research funds on a small number of "elite" or premier league universities is the most wrong-headed...
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Just old codswallop
Eric Laithwaite's review of my book, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science (THES, June 21), makes little attempt to discharge the first duty of a reviewer, namely to give readers some...
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From piety to a cosmic order
It would be a mistake to dismiss Roger Scruton's recent arguments on animals and their lack of rights as narrow and partisan, argues David Wiggins. Indeed they come in a framework that offers the...
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Highlands aims even higher
The University of the Highlands and Islands project is to seek Pounds 10 million from the European Union following its success this week in winning Pounds 33 million from the Millennium Commission...
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Cash for the best, says v-c
Cambridge University is to campaign for funding arrangements that will preserve its position among the world's elite higher education institutions, its new vice chancellor said this week. Alec Broers...
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Deal struck on staff contracts
The Robert Gordon University and the Educational Institute of Scotland have reached an 11th hour agreement on academic contracts, avoiding a further legal battle. The union won a Court of Session...
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Good old daze
Is Labour's front-bench education and employment team on some kind of productivity bonus? Not content with generating about half of the thick pack of reports handed over to conference delegates, it,...
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NUS alerts student tenants to the dangers of the Housing Act
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Alan Thomson samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. The National Union of Students issued special guidelines this week amid fears that new legislation will...