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CULTURAL BABBAGE:TECHNOLOGY, TIME AND INVENTION. Edited By Francis Spufford And Jenny Uglow. Faber and Faber. 313pp, Pounds 15.99. ISBN 0 571 172423 Cultural projects can come from anywhere, but this...
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Ring of confidence
(Photograph) - Picture by Mike Benson/Insight Ring of confidence: Exeter University played host last month to 40 girls aged 16 to 17 who are seeking a career in engineering. The week-long...
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Appointments
SMITH AND NEPHEW FOUNDATION Richard Kitney, professor of biomedical systems engineering at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, has been appointed a trustee of the foundation....
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Tree circle
(Photograph) - Tree circle: seats at the Chiltern Open Air Museum designed by Joel Bugg, a second-year furniture design student at Buckinghamshire College
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Dogs and Englishmen
(Photograph) - Dogs and Englishmen: students from East Devon College film Dog Nation as part of their B Tech National Diploma in media studies on national identity. They decided man's best friend...
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Food bad, Russians awesome
Our correspondent and Olympic competitor Jon Wyatt survives a Korean onslaught and Atlanta's traffic gridlock. Sunday July 14 We finally arrive at our Olympic destination - nine months and 38 games...
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THES record sales
The circulation of The THES in January-June 1996 averaged ,374 copies per issue, 2.9 per cent more than for the same period in 1995 and the highest in the paper's history, according to figures just...
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Sailing Club Med
(Photograph) - Sailing Club Med: Training time for the Plymouth University crew that won this year's British Student Yachting Nationals and is competing in the Student World Cup off Marseilles in...
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Star thieves
Strathclyde Police are investigating the theft of equipment from Glasgow University. Extraordinary, really, that the academics failed to warn the police in advance, since according to Strathclyde's...
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Welsh rising
The number of students on higher education courses in Wales grew by 55 per cent from 1990/91 to 1993/94, figures published by the Welsh Office show. More than half of the 83,800 students in 1993/94...
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Universities face student boom
Higher education is set to change beyond all recognition as individual institutions struggle to greet 25 per cent more students in the next ten years, according to an Institute of Employment Studies...
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Faraday four get cash
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has revealed details of a Pounds 20 million plan to strengthen research ties between industry and academia. The idea is to create four "Faraday...
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Durham revamps Stockton venture
Students enrolling at University College, Stockton, this year will be the first to emerge with University of Durham instead of joint Durham/Teesside degrees. This marks the end of a collaboration...
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Funding by numbers provokes Greek university fury
Greek university chiefs have reacted angrily to education secretary George Papandreou's suggestion that future funding of universities should be based on student numbers and that teaching staff be...
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Dead Clever? Terminally unfunny
I have never before encountered such a lot of malodorous claptrap (Dead Clever by Ted Nield, THES, July 19). The characters are crudely drawn: Toni in particular appears to be the two-dimensional...