Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Up early to catch the train and tube from Northampton to Heathrow, thence to Budapest for a five-day visit to the Kecskemet Union of Colleges and Research (teacher education; engineering;...
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League tables
On May 24 The THES again published the raw data used by The Times to compile its annual integrated league table of United Kingdom universities with the aims of explaining The Times table and,...
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Chairs
THAMES VALLEY UNIVERSITY. Paul Walton, distinguished senior fellow in the centre for journalism studies at the University of Wales College, Cardiff, has been appointed as the university's first...
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Lancaster hits cash crisis
Lancaster University has taken the unprecedented step of blocking all discretionary spending to halt spiralling debt, which auditors warn could lead to technical insolvency by 1999. Vice chancellor...
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Fellowships
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has awarded Technology Foresight Junior Fellowships to the following: Shireen-Anne...
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Queen's Birthday Honours
LIFE PEERS. BARONESS. Dame June Kathleen Lloyd, DBE, Nuffield professor of child health, British Postgraduate Medical Federation, London University, 1985 to 1992; now emeritus professor. KNIGHTS...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS. Research grants Dr M. Ryan, Pounds 194,964 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (self-processing polyproteins - enabling technology for...
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Appointments
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY. Ewan Brown, executive director of Noble Grossart Limited, has been appointed chairman of court designate. SHEFC Steve Cannon, deputy secretary of Dundee University, has been...
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Be sure of no Shell link
I was intrigued to see that my short article on the Brent Spar affair (THES, May 31) appeared opposite a full-page advert for Shell's Internet Brent Spar website. Since my article carried the agreed...
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When the living is wheezy
Scientists now believe a western lifestyle is to blame for the increase in asthma. Asthma goes back to the time of the ancient Greeks when Hippocrates coined the term. But in those days the condition...
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South Bank makes lecturers redundant
One seventh of all full-time academic posts at London's South Bank University are to be axed, including the first compulsory redundancies to hit the university sector. Almost half of the 84 axed...
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Garrick's lead role
Sir Ron Garrick, chief executive of the Weir Group, is to chair the committee investigating Scottish higher education as part of Sir Ron Dearing's committee of inquiry. There is growing impatience in...
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Franchise row rages at Swansea
A fierce battle over the standard of overseas franchise courses is being fought between senior managers and quality assurance officials at Swansea Institute of Higher Education. Senior managers at...
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Still a few more problems to solve
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS T1-92 CALCULATOR Pounds 199.99 including VAT The Texas Instruments TI-92 is a lightweight (620g) powerful calculator. The word "calculator" hardly does it justice, as it can plot...
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Lesbian affair leads to lawsuit
Forty-year-old divorced mother Dale Gray is just another vulnerable student, says her lawyer. But according to the University of Alabama, it acted properly to protect her interests in a campus sexual...