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Fellowships
IMPERIAL COLLEGE. Eric Ash, director of the Student Loans Company and former rector of Imperial College; Hon-Kwan Cheng, government of Hong Kong structural engineer and pioneer of open university and...
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Events
FETISHISM. A touring exhibition from the Hayward Gallery and Brighton Museum will make its final stop at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich between October 17 and December 10. Fetishism...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ST MARTIN, LANCASTER. Alan Beattie, honorary senior research fellow, has been awarded a personal chair in health promotion. UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Peter Mathieson, director of...
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Promotions
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE. Readerships: D. L. Bader, lecturer in biomaterials and biomechanics; S. E. Curtis, senior lecturer in geography; M. J. Griffin, lecturer astrophysics; L. Hutson,...
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Appointments
QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE. Margaret Hall has been appointed chairwoman of the board of governors at Queen Margaret College, Edinburgh, succeeding Leslie Rodger. Ms Hall was executive director of legal...
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Don's Diary
WEDNESDAY. New Labour is in town. The bars of the Grand and the Metropole are thronged with politicians, journalists, lobbyists, fixers and spin doctors. The Committee of Vice Chancellors and...
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Malaysian college plan falters
Plans for a privately-financed London University college in Malaysia are in danger of collapse over disagreements between the university authorities and the sponsors about the status of the new...
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Surprise rise in intake could bring penalties
Early estimates from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service indicate that there has been a 6.4 per cent increase in admissions for this academic year compared to 1994/95. This means that...
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Leeds censors access to Internet
Leeds University has decided to withdraw access to a range of Internet newsgroups because of their "appalling" content, which computer staff say often includes pornographic material. But some...
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Battle of the races
Affirmative action is under attack in the United States. Tim Cornwell reports. A snapshot from an ideological battlefield: reporters from the new conservative magazine, The Weekly Standard, called...
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Whither the likely lads?
Whatever happened to the heirs of the New Left, asks Fred Inglis In the early 1960s there was a remarkable flowering of intellectual life in Britain with the bursting into colour of the New Left....
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Famous Seamus
Seamus Heaney admits to Simon Targett that even Nobel laureates get embarrassed giving low marks to favourite students. He looked like a farmer with dress sense. His burly agricultural frame, topped...
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Bengali Brahmin meets Berkeley
Bharati Mukherjee tells Ronald Warwick about her transformation from high-caste Indian into American writer. I met Bharati Mukherjee in Holland where she was launching the Dutch translation of her...
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The Lady who turned to nationalisation
Simon Jenkins analyses how Margaret Thatcher brought higher education to heel. Why are our universities so timid? As they steel themselves to respond to Gillian Shephard's higher education review,...