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The hereafter thereafter
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
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Chairs
CARDIFF INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION Glyn Jones, artist and head of the school of fine art, has been awarded the title of professor. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Michael Barnes, previously professor of...
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Appointments
ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTER PRINTMAKERS David Carpanini, head of art and design at the University of Wolverhampton, has been elected vicepresident of the RSPP. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF RIPON AND YORK ST...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF READING Research grants: Professor A. O'Neill and Dr L. Steenman-Clark, Pounds 74,045 from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (UK universities global atmospheric...
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Fellowships
RSAMD The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama has conferred fellowships on: William Fraser, principal and vice chancellor of the University of Glasgow; William Millar, former governor of RSAMD...
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Events
LIVING LANDSCAPE An exhibition of Shobha Banerjee's paintings will be shown at the Commonwealth Institute from April 28 to June 18. The artist's work questions her sense of place and her French-...
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Global vision
(Photograph) - Global vision: the European environmental satellite ERS-2, above, will be launched next week carrying eight instruments, including the along-track scanning radiometer (ATSR-2), built...
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Mauritius wins loan
The island of Mauritius, a tropical paradise in the Indian Ocean known for its sugar fields, volcanic mountains and white beaches, is to receive a $16 million World Bank loan for higher education....
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Salary secrecy slammed
Many senior academic staff are in the dark about how their pay increases are awarded, according to lecturers' union Natfhe. It has blamed the scrapping of nationally negotiated scales for...
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The reel thing
As Oxford University tardily embraces film as a subject worthy of academic study, Ian Christie assures the traditionally trained that they can feel comfortable with the seductive magic of the cinema...
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Thou shalt honour thy sources
Jim Parlour argues that if we are going to lecture students on the evils of plagiarism, we ought to be clear about what it is. Wolverhampton University has launched a poster campaign to "warn...
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Our three pound engine
Paul Churchland argues that as the secrets of the brain are uncovered by neural science, its many ills will become as easy to treat as the ills of the body. The past five years have seen an...
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Past masters
Composer Jonathan Harvey recalls his former maestros. I liked several of my Cambridge tutors well enough, but I did not get the sort of teaching that I needed. Analysis was rudimentary, the idea of...
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`Keep your mind in hell and despair not'
Elaine Williams talks to Gillian Rose, the philosopher who has fused her scholarship, love affairs and experience of ovarian cancer into an extraordinary bestselling book. It takes an extraordinary...