Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN Ian Alexander, head of the department of plant and soil science, keeper of the Cruickshank Botanic Garden, co-director, Conoco Natural History Centre and member of the board of...
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Grants
SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY Research contracts Dr B. Gabbitas, Pounds 60,000 from Department of Trade and Industry and Pounds 20,000 from Jacobson Chemicals Ltd; Professor M. Whieldon, Pounds 60,620 from...
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Casino course
Never let it be said that making it in the jobs market these days is a lottery. Lucky students at Salford University have been given the chance of a new degree with the odds of a job at the end of it...
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Peerless prof
David Currie, professor of economics at the London Business School, became a life peer in the list announced this week. Professor Currie, 49, is a member of the Treasury Panel of Independent...
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Sexy discrimination
Freudian slip or typographical error? These questions may be occupying the mind of Clare Ruby who is, according to Middlesex University's newsletter North Circular, "Middlesexy Project Development...
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Sea-borne
(Photograph) - Sea-borne: Plymouth University student Lucy Lake has reclaimed materials from the sea to make this storage unit as part of her 3D art and design degree course.
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Apologies
Further apologies to THES subscribers whose copies are again delayed by postal workers' industrial action. The latest strike was due to take place yesterday.
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Alcohol researcher sees red
A leading alcohol researcher is demanding an explanation for an academic journal's refusal to publish a book review which it commissioned from him. John Duffy, director of Edinburgh University's...
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Colleges in two-tier clearing
Universities are developing a two-tier system of degree programmes in an effort to mop up applicants to over-subscribed courses during clearing. About 10,000 new or amended courses are on offer...
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Chat chunks aid the art of conversation
Sheila Grant has never been able to speak but last month she addressed hundreds of delegates at a Canadian conference using a new speech aid developed in Dundee. Ms Grant, who has cerebral palsy and...
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Design for the computer age
Lord Skidelsky, in the last paragraph of his "Dear Ron" letter (THES, August 9), demonstrates typical misconceptions about students' finances, and indeed about the makeup of the student body,...
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Best to be sheepish
During a visit to Morocco friends there told me a bitter-sweet joke: "As far as monarchies go", they related, "better to be Moroccan sheep than British cows!" From the vantage point of King Hassan II...
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Proof of the eating is in UEA's pudding
The University of East Anglia is proposing to become the United Kingdom's premier centre for food research, writes Kam Patel. The bid has been spurred by the Government's Prior Options review which...
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Westminster tops debt league
Students could incur vastly higher levels of debt depending on the university they attended, according to a new survey. Figures produced as part of the 1997 PUSH (formerly the Polytechnics and...
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Right said Fred
Alumnus to be proud of No 63 has received more praise for his personal integrity and honesty over the past few days - albeit in distinctly Mark Antony style - than most people do in a lifetime. Fred...