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Is the modularisation of courses a stepping stone or a stumbling block? The latest signs seem to point to a brighter future, say Norman Jackson and Patricia Gregg. Nearly 90 per cent of universities...
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SHEFFIELD HALLAM UNIVERSITY. Principal lecturer and reader: Barry Goodchild, senior lecturer in housing and urban planning. Senior academic: Glyn Owen, former principal lecturer, policy research...
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The job's the thing
The growth of business studies may not simply be cause for celebration all round, as Lucy Hodges reports. Anyone who thinks Britain is still churning out too many arts graduates - people who can read...
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Figured out
Collecting comprehensive data is a colossal undertaking, says Brian Ramsden. The Higher Education Statistics Agency was incorporated in November 1992, following proposals in the White Paper Higher...
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Second or third time lucky
Nick Clarke, aged 36, is registered as blind. Actually he is partially sighted. A hereditary degenerative eye condition that appeared when he was five has meant the loss of his direct vision. If he...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH. Exeter School of Arts and Design. Doctor of Arts: Brian Sanders, illustrator. Royal Engineering College, Manadon. DTech: Hermann Bondi, mathematician, astronomer and former...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER. Charities. Dr D. Twell, Pounds 79,256 from the Royal Society (research fellowship); Professor G. Dover, Pounds 128,391 from the Wellcome Trust (an experimental analysis of...
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Events
DESIRING PRACTICES. "Desiring Practices" is a series of free architecture and design exhibitions being held in London and highlighting the importance of gender roles in new practices in architecture...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH. Steven Savage (senior lecturer and director of the Institute of Police and Criminological Studies), professor of criminology; Richard Healey (senior lecturer at Edinburgh...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE. John Sefton, chairman of British Visqueen and group personnel director for British Polythene Industries, has been appointed to the board of governors. KEELE UNIVERSITY....
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A breath of fresh air by a four-minute miler
If Andy Warhol was right that everyone is famous for 15 minutes, Roger Bannister might legitimately feel cheated. An eminent neurologist, co-author of a standard medical textbook and former Master of...
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Checkmate
The Podgoritsa Archaeological Project was the first UK/US/Bulgarian collaboration since the Second World War. It was led by academics from Cardiff and Berkeley and backed by the British Academy. It...
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Great expectations cannot be realised
It is a commonplace that revolutions happen when expectations rise and are then unmet. If this is so we may face some surprising frictions in the next few years. At the end of this month Demos will...
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Blindness in Gaza
I am just back from the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza. The first time I was there was in November 1992, on a fact-finding mission on behalf of the French university presidents. The...
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Just walk this American way
More loans, less grants mark sea change in Britain, writes Rupert Wilkinson. The British way of financing university students is getting more like the American one - less reliance on student grants,...