Chairs
Anglia Polytechnic University. Tony Hall, head of the design guidance research unit, has been appointed to a research chair in town planning. University of Sussex The following have been promoted to...
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Grants
Lancaster University Charities Professor P. Ayres and Dr. S. Andrew, Pounds 83,000 from North West Cancer Research Fund (flow cytometer). Research contracts Dr D. Worthington, Pounds 38,430 from...
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Honorary degrees
University of Sunderland DBA: Llew Aviss, personnel director at Siemens Microelectronics Ltd, president of the Regional Chamber of Commerce, board member of Northern Development Company, director of...
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Class apartheid
Britain's top universities are dominated by a supergroup of students from private or grammar schools and there is not much that new Labour can do about it, argues Andrew Adonis One country, two...
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The cosmic godfather
About to turn 80, Arthur C. Clarke talks to Andrew Robinson about his life as the great communicator of science, his latest predictions, and life in Sri Lanka The author-scientist Arthur C. Clarke's...
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Lunatic ideas and the truth about asylums
Foucault said that madhouses in the 18th and 19th centuries were nothing more than prisons for social nuisances, but he was wrong. They were also hospitals where attempts were made to cure the...
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J'accuse: a history
Rubbishing intellectuals is as much a well-loved pastime in France as elsewhere and Impostures Intellectuelles has earned Sokal and Bricmont vast media coverage. Targeting the tendency of French...
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In through the backdoor
Heidi Mirza tells Julia Hinde that racism lives and equality is a myth, but that black girls are beating the system Heidi Mirza, reader in sociology at South Bank University, is unusual in the...
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Awards
Pilkington Prize The 1997 Pilkington Prizes for excellence in teaching were presented to: Martin Cowley, department of engineering; Lorraine Gelsthorpe, institute of criminology; Robin Hiley,...
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Spot checks on quality
Huw Richards reports from the fringe meetings at the Labour party conference in Brighton Student leaders are calling for spot checks on quality in university departments. Doug Trainer, president of...
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Down under
(Photograph) - Down under: Paul Ridout, managing director of Ocean Scientific International Ltd., a company working with Southampton Oceanography Centre, holds the MiniBat, an underwater robot that...
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Going to the back of the class
Brenda Smith explains why lecturers need to listen to each other and criticise What would your reaction be if a member of staff stopped you in the corridor and asked you to come into their next...
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An audience of confident cynics
Phil Baty joins a group of thirtysomethings in the classroom I should have just bull****ted," concedes the loud bloke in the rugby shirt at the back of the lecture room, after being pilloried by 25...
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Still lecturing at the lectern?
Teaching space is still dedicated to the medieval idea of students sitting at your feet, says Roger Lewis A student from a mid-19th century university would feel wholly at home on the late 20th-...
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When teaching interrupts the real work
Lecturers should not be afraid of educationists. They need to get involved in research into teaching methods, says Paul Orsmond Not many higher education lecturers will be promoted because of their...