In and out of this world
Fact and fun combine in Donna Haraway's work of literary pyrotechnics to describe our technoscientific world. Gail Vines reports. Donna Haraway's writing is flamboyant, funny, challenging - and not a...
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Chairs
University of Wales, Bangor Jenny Thomas, senior lecturer in the department of linguistics and modern English language at the University of Lancaster, has been appointed professor of linguistics from...
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Grants
Bolton Institute Research contracts Professor S. Anand, Pounds 42,000, over three years, from Whirlpool Corporation United States (programme into better understanding of fabric care) and Pounds 30,...
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Honorary degrees
University of Sussex DMus: John Tomlinson, opera singer. LLD: Terry Whitney, former senior partner of the university's solicitors, Donne Mileham and Haddock. University of the West of England MA:...
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Appointments
The Leadership Trust Roger Gill, former director of executive development programmes at the University of Strathclyde, has been appointed head of the new research centre for leadership studies....
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Hard-up members quit league
The Association of Commonwealth Universities could be seriously weakened if any more British universities drop out to save money, its new secretary general has warned. At least three have withdrawn...
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Qualifications revamp urged
The qualifications system in higher education needs to be redefined and updated, academics are to be told. Quality chiefs want universities and colleges to work towards a common framework for the...
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Infectious inaccuracy
First the Today programme on Radio Four, now you. E. coli O157 may indeed be virulent but it is a bacterium, not a virus, and the O is a letter, not a zero. DOUGLAS KELL Institute of Biological...
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Rich pickings
MORE THAN 100,000 extra students would crowd UK lecture theatres if as many people at the bottom of the social scale went to university as the current average. Young people from the wealthiest...
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Five-star funding for fab four
"UNDERHAND elitism" in the Higher Education Funding Council for England's research funding methodology has created an "unassailable super-elite" of four top institutions, according to vice...
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Finance trio go as deficit revealed
THE University of Luton has been rocked by the shock revelation of serious deficits. Three top finance officers had their contracts terminated when the university discovered that an expected Pounds 1...
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Quality job decision imminent
The new single quality agency for higher education is expected to announce its chief executive this week after months of speculation over who would apply for the Pounds 60,000-a-year job. On the...
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An udder success
(Photograph) - An udder success: scientists at Liverpool University's veterinary school have joined with a local business in a bid to eradicate a parasite responsible for abortions in cows. One in...
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Discretionary grants tumble by 39 per cent
The number of higher education discretionary grants awarded by local authorities dropped to 9,000 in 1995/96 - a fall of 39 per cent on the previous year. Government figures show spending on these...
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Westminster set to privatise student housing
WESTMINSTER University has released details of plans to privatise its Pounds 28 million student housing estate. The university hopes to sell off its estate in return for an 80 per cent increase in...