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First Impressions
The words of this week's First Impressions, our new competition in which you have to identify the opening sentence of a well-known book, were penned by a British novelist who once was listed but now...
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A History of the Family - A History of the Family
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Queen's Anniversary Prizes
A novel finishing system for the garment industry which has been translated into commercial success won Leeds Metropolitan University a Queen's Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education....
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Chairs
King's College, London. John Deathridge, former reader in music from Cambridge University, has been appointed King Edward chair of music; Irene Higginson, senior lecturer at the London School of...
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Grants
London Business School. Research contracts Dr D. Robertson and P. Morrison, Pounds 249,989 from Higher Education Funding Council for England (fund for development of teaching and learning: a model...
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Don's Diary
Thursday At morning tea I happen to mention to an English colleague that I am giving a lecture next Tuesday in the Chancellor's Hall of the University of London Senate House. I have been brooding...
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Honorary degrees
Open University. Tony Harris, former principal of Harper Adams College, has been awarded an honorary doctorate for his lifetime contribution to agricultural education. He was also made a fellow of...
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Irish protests force climbdown
Irish education minister Niamh Bhreathnach has promised to amend her controversial universities bill following protests from academics and politicians that it compromised autonomy. The bill, about to...
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V-cs eye food institute for private takeover
The Government's drive to privatise 40 public sector research laboratories could lead to a university takeover of the Institute of Food Research. The institute is allied to the Biotechnology and...
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Dons veto business school
Dons at Oxford have rejected plans by the university management to establish a major business school on a greenfield site in the centre of the city. The vote on Tuesday afternoon went 259 to 214...
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Hefce wants more power
Central control over the higher education sector should be greater, say funding council chiefs. They want more power to steer universities, higher education colleges and further education colleges...
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Second 'Internet' planned
Fifty research universities in the United States plan to spend as much as $200 million in the next five years to bypass the go-slow Internet. The system, dubbed Internet II, is expected to be more...
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Internet provider U-Net
Internet provider U-Net is advertising in student newspapers to wake up students to its offer of access to the Janet academic network from any telephone socket. The dial-up service was launched last...
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Networked centres add depth to art
Art and design faculties nationwide are being encouraged to improve their skills in three-dimensional computer modelling. Resource centres in "networked virtual reality" have been established at...