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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF READING Research grants Dr M. Drew, Pounds 154,412 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (experimental and computer modelling study of the water-structuring...
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The Royal Society
The following have been elected: Fellows Martin Bennett, professorial fellow at the Research School of chemistry, Australian National University. Iain Campbell, professor of structural studies,...
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Chairs
CHICHESTER INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Afzal Ahmed (reader), chair in mathematics education; Paul Foster (principal lecturer and head of studies) chair in English studies; Tudor Hale (head of...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Graham Upton's appointment as pro vice chancellor has been extended to July 31, 1998; Frances Young, Edward Cadbury professor and head of department of theology becomes dean...
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Events
WORKHOUSE THEATRE. Graduating students at The Poor School and Workhouse Theatre will perform a play by Robert Holman at the Workhouse Theatre, Pentonville Road. Today is about English people in the...
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Lord Runciman at the Royal Society
(Photograph) - Eminence grise: Darwin loitered in the background as Lord Runciman (above), fellow of the British Academy, and John Maynard Smith (below), fellow of the Royal Society, hosted a joint...
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Highly coloured remarks
The racism I faced wasn't a very violent form. . . it was much more the patronising tone with which people dealt with me. It was as if to say, 'we don't let many of you in so you should be grateful...
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Figure it out
The position of non-Caucasians in higher education remains uneasy, discovers Pat Younge, despite the seemingly encouraging application statistics that have recently become available. In 1986 the...
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Netties anonymous
Are some people addicted to the fast expanding Internet? Mark Griffiths argues the case for research. With the numbers of online computer users more than doubling over the past two years, it has been...
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Bonnie mots
Olga Wojtas reports on the task to digitise Auld Scots. The impact of technology has now reached medieval Scots. For almost 80 years, editors of the monumental Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue...
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The perpetual outsider
Anita Desai's latest novel is the first she has written out of India. Andrew Robinson went to meet her. Anita Desai is a novelist read in several languages besides English, a winner of literary...
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Apocalypse now?
Bruce Hoffman fears that the Tokyo gas attack could herald the start of a lethal era of religious terrorism. Last month's deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo underground marks an historical...
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FE dispute needs flexible friendship
I agree with David Bunch's rejection of "gratuitous personal attacks" (THES, March 24) but note he goes on to describe managers who do not share his view of the FE dispute as "faltering voices". As a...
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Levy the loaded
Last week the Labour leaders of the National Union of Students began to ditch the union's commitment to free education. At the annual conference they announced that there would be a "review" of NUS's...