The fallen mighty
The Lost Prime Minister
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Readerships: Stuart Abell, in electronic and magnetic materials; John Fender, in macroeconomics; Colin Greaves, inorganic chemistry; Michael Grimmitt, religion in education;...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS DLitt: Alan Bowness, director of the Tate Gallery (1980-88) and former director of the Henry Moore Foundation; Stuart Hall, professor of sociology at the Open University. DMus:...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Research Grants Dr M. Carroll, Pounds 55,419 from the Natural Environment Research Council (experimental study of the role of carbon dioxide in magmatic systems); Dr A. Leyshoon...
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Fellowships
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON Presentation fellows: Sandor Alexander, chairman of National Westminster Bank; Vivien Duffield, philanthropist and patron of the arts. Fellow: Margaret Brown, head of the...
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Events
MATRIX 3d An international conference, focusing on practice and research in sculpture, linking these to practice-based research degrees is intended for sculptors and those interested in research...
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Chairs
GRESHAM COLLEGE From September 1: Simon Lee, rector of the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education, to the chair of law; Susan Greenfield, fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, to the chair of physics....
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Jane Lewis, professor of social policy at the London School of Economics and Political History since 1991, has been appointed to the readership in the history of medicine, which...
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Natural Environment
No one can doubt the profound and growing importance that scientific understanding of the environment and its resources will have on human activity over the next 20 or 50 years. The six key issues on...
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MPs see red on college finances
The Public Accounts Committee said this week that it was concerned that colleges might be forced to borrow money to meet day-to-day running costs as a result of deficits totalling Pounds 20 million....
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Holy city sparks unholy row
An academic argument has blown up over a new study option at Exeter University to examine the role of Jerusalem in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Exeter's department of politics is to run the option as...
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Prof in lather about soap
Professor Baumann, a folklore studies tutor at Tubingen University, is in his local pub boozily talking over the theme of tomorrow morning's seminar with a colleague. He finally hits on it: "A...
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Real-life soap: Hermann Bausinger, professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Germany
(Photograph) - Real-life soap: Hermann Bausinger, professor at the Ludwig Uhland Institute in Germany, has written to the makers of a German soap opera to complain that their fictional Professor...
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Mothering with a spot of infanticide
Aisling Irwin talks to Jane Goodall, the first zoologist to credit chimpanzees with personalities. The dramatic moment when chimpanzees were first spotted using tools: "Evered, as he climbed through...
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The worth of nations
Rob Brown reports on the career of Tom Nairn, the Scottish writer and academic who believes that resurgent nationalism does not need to be nasty Those who check the planet's pulse by tuning into TV...