Awards
The Royal Society The following medals were awarded for 1997: Copley Medal: Hugh Huxley, professor of biology at the Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center at Brandeis University, USA. In...
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Truth lost in vain views
Postmodernist historians demean the dead with their narcissistic views. Richard Evans urges his colleagues to rise up against the theoreticians History degrees used to focus overwhelmingly on the...
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Europe's social outcast
Britain tops the European league in teenage births and divorce, aligning it with its English-speaking cousins across the globe rather than its continental neighbours, says David Coleman Until well...
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Arians act on impulse
Star signs may hold the key to shopping behaviour, according to a survey of 30,000 people. Katrina Wishart reports Are you a person who spends hours shopping and ends up buying nothing? Are you...
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Fellowships
Royal Swedish Academy of Forestry and Agriculture Paul Jarvis, professor of forestry and natural resources at the University of Edinburgh has been elected to a fellowship. National Humanities Center...
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Honorary degrees
Loughborough University DLitt: Klaus Hansch, past president of the European Parliament, Brussels, member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party in North Rhine-Westphalia; Timothy...
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Chronicle of a death untold
Conspiracy theories about the death in a plane crash of a leading Indian nationalist at the end of the second world war will persist until the British Foreign Office releases papers on the incident....
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Return of the Welsh nation
The Welsh will probably say yes to devolution, influenced more by the Scottish vote than by a clear sense of national identity, argues John Osmond The real question being asked of the Welsh in the...
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Welsh devolution: the essential facts
Next Thursday the 1.2 million electors of Wales will vote on whether the principality should have its own elected Welsh Assembly. Even if the Welsh people vote "Yes", higher education in Wales is...
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Downloading
(Photograph) - Downloading: Derek Fraser, Teesside University vice chancellor (second left), used Prime Minister Tony Blair's launch of Trimdon digital village last week to attack student fees and...
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Grade error
Queen's University, Belfast has formally apologised to students after an exams blunder left almost 1,000 applicants to both it and the University of Ulster in limbo. An electronic error meant many...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: * 0.6 per cent of first-degree graduates found employment in agriculture and forestry * 11 per cent of first-degree...
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Saw point
(Photograph) - Saw point: Bruce Cuthbert is one of a brigade of unemployed people busy working to build their own houses as part of a Pounds 500,000 project in Huddersfield to regenerate the city....
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Scotland Referendum
(Photograph) - Facing a bleak future? The recent European Court ruling outlawing football transfer fees for out-of contract players could have a particularly damaging effect in Scotland, according to...
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Sir Ron fears
Sir Ron Dearing said this week that his committee proposed student fees because of the need for extra cash in higher education. "For the money not to come to higher education would be a denial of one...