Awards
THE WOLFSON FOUNDATION. 1994 Wolfson History prizewinners are: Fiona McCarthy for William Morris: A Life for our Time and John C. G. Rohl for The Kaiser and his Court: Wilhelm II and the Government...
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Appointments
CVCP. Gareth Roberts, incoming chairman of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals and vice chancellor of Sheffield University, has named the final five members to complete the organisation'...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL. Martin Boddy, director of the school for advanced urban studies, professor of urban and regional studies; Lesley Doyal, director of research at University of West of England,...
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Broers set for post
Alec Broers is to become vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge on October 1, 1996. An electronics engineer and master of Churchill College, he will succeed Sir David Williams, the university...
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New Keele V-C
Keele University has appointed its first woman vice chancellor. Janet Finch, a professor of social relations and pro-vice chancellor at Lancaster University, will take up her new post in September....
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Glasgow Caledonian University sign contract with Bimota
(Photograph) - Glasgow Caledonian University has signed a Pounds 500,000 contract with Italian motorcycle manufacturers Bimota to produce a world first in the internal combustion engine market, a...
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Quality plan thrown out
Vice chancellors have overwhelmingly rejected the Higher Education Funding Council for England's plan for a single quality assurance body. The rejection at last week's meeting of the Committee of...
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Head for science
Robert May, a 59-year-old biologist based at Oxford University, pictured right, is to succeed Sir William Stewart as the Government's chief scientific adviser. He will also be head of the Office of...
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Union suffers battel losses
Students at Pembroke College in Oxford have called off their rent strike and disaffiliated from the National Union of Students, in a bitter culmination of their attempts to fight an increase in...
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College raises security alarm
Despite spending Pounds 250,000 on improved security measures in the past six months, Manchester College of Arts and Technology was forced to resort to the High Court last week to remove two "...
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Greeks prepare for private universities
The Greek government is planning constitutional reform to pave the way for the establishment of private universities. George Papandreou, the secretary of state for education, announced at a press...
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Lords attack assessment overlap for medicine
A House of Lords committee has condemned the decision to subject clinical medicine departments to two separate research assessment exercises: the new National Health Service assessment of major...
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First lessons in mind reading
Autistic children seem to be largely unaware of other peoples' mental states - and the task for educators is to develop learning programmes better suited to their desperate needs, suggests Simon...
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The deception of Snow White
(Photograph) - This single frame captures the essential plot that a normal four-year-old child can understand. Snow White does not know that the old lady is really her wicked stepmother in disguise,...
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United appeal for a no zone
UN peacekeepers may be simply delaying the inevitable but they could do much more with the right support from senior planners, James Smith believes. Last September, I interviewed Canadian...