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Rainy days' CASH A team of environmental scientists from the University of Hertfordshire is seeking sponsorship for an eight-week expedition to the rain forest of Guyana in South America. They aim to...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA DCL: Claus Moser, chairman of the British Museum Development Trust, chancellor of Keele University and former chairman of the Research Committee of the National Commission...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Research contracts Professor P. York, Pounds 98,433 from Roche, Pfizer and Smith Kline Beecham (investigative studies into particle formation processes and crystal engineering...
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Events
KUBA TEXTILES The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, is presenting an exhibition of Kuba textiles which will feature early and recent examples, as well as a collection made by Wilfred Thesiger's father when...
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Ulster's restrained guardians
Paul Wilkinson praises the army and RUC's role in countering terrorism. The United Kingdom has experienced the most protracted and lethal of all indigenous terrorist campaigns in western Europe, the...
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How to pamper professors
Igor Aleksander was invited to a Californian multidisciplinary conference, or was it a three-day dinner party? My invitation to speak arrived last July and, somewhat flattered by the promise of "big...
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Redrawing the map by numbers
In the 1980s Britain went indicator mad. Every institution was subjected to the attentions of managers and auditors compiling new performance indicators to set budgets, measure progress and turn the...
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Neural nonsense
While I find John Taylor's argument (THES, March 3) interesting and although I share an interest in neural network techniques, I cannot agree that we are on the verge of a breakthrough in...
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Super-vision
St Antony's College was singled out in an article about the Graduate Student Charter (THES, March 3) as an example of a graduate college where some dissatisfaction exists regarding university...
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Debenture stuck on the slipway
In your leader column (THES, March 10) you stated that Lancaster University had launched a Pounds 35 million debenture issue. Not so, unfortunately. We have been on the slipway for some time, and had...
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Danger in strict codes of conduct
I was appalled by the article on campus "Don Juans" by Pam Carter and Tony Jeffs (THES, March 10). Granted there are, regrettably, occasions when students are harassed and pressured by tutors into...
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Drawing the line on classes of degree
The tragicomic scenes being played out at the University of East Anglia (THES, March 10) again confirm the need for a thorough revision of final degree assessment practice. As both university teacher...