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Earth's planned family
Geographies of Global Change - Land Mosaics
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Water worshipping
Toward Sustainable Development? Struggling over India's Narmada River - Water and Womanhood
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Appointments
OXFORD UNIVERSITY. David Turton, honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester, has been appointed director of the Refugee Studies Programme. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF CHARTERED SURVEYORS Derek...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. Research grants. Dr M. Silver and Professor A. Adams, Pounds 6,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (simulation of advanced strained-layer...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. Honorary professorship: Edward Gregson, principal of the Royal Northern College of Music. UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Honorary professorship in psychology: Richard Bell, senior...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND. Honorary doctorates have been awarded to: Liu Ding Yih (David Liu), head of the British Taiwan Cultural Institute, London; John Austin, bishop of Aston; Tim Brighouse,...
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Unions fear 100 job losses
Up to 100 lecturing and other posts could face the axe because the University of Westminster wants to build up its cash reserves, unions have claimed. Lecturers' union Natfhe be-lieves the university...
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Scottish investment
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is investing Pounds 200,000 in tackling the career concerns of contract research staff, writes Olga Wojtas, Scottish Editor. Juliet Cheetham, former...
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Contract staff win better conditions
Contract researchers are expected to win significant improvements in their working conditions in the next few weeks. Details of a framework for their career management are to be published following...
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Ready, steady, go
(Photograph) - Identical triplets Elizabeth, Helen and Sue Williams in training on their sports degree courses at Brunel University College could confuse competitors and officials alike at the...
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Axe poised over beauty spot college
Lancaster University may have to close Charlotte Mason College in Ambleside, Cumbria, in the face of Government funding cuts combined with an Ofsted report due in a few weeks which rates important...
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Mature approach to quality ranking
Quality watchdogs are to rank universities and colleges according to their "maturity" to determine which can be trusted to monitor themselves. The plan emerged following the third meeting last week...
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Funding cuts bite
Cuts in staff, building programmes and essential equipment will inevitably follow grant reductions announced by the English higher education funding council last week, universities have warned....
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Marvellous architecture
A Compendium of Pevsner's Buildings of England on Compact Disc, Compiled by Michael Good, Oxford University Press (+44 1865 56767), Pounds 295 + VAT ISBN 019 2682210, Windows CD The series of books...