Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Robert Parker, fellow of Oriel College and lecturer in Greek and Latin languages and literature, has been appointed Wykeham professor of ancient history, succeeding W. G. G....
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Appointments
CHICHESTER INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Philip Robinson, senior pro-rector at Roehampton Institute and principal of Froebel College, has been appointed director, succeeding John Wyatt. He will join...
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Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. European Professor T. J. T. Whittaker in collaboration with Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal, Pounds 430,000 from European Commission (Islay European shoreline wave...
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Fellowships
THE LABAN CENTRE. The Laban Centre for Movement and Dance awarded honorary fellowships to the following: Merce Cunningham, New York based-choreographer; Stuart Hopps, former associate director of...
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The second great balloon debate
Last week young scientists, plunging to earth in an overloaded hot air balloon, debated which of them should jump to allow one of them to float to safety. This week our great balloon debate focuses...
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Law firms' all-clear
A voluntary clearing house for law graduates hoping to train as barristers has won the backing of some of Britain's most prestigious sets of chambers. The Bar Council said this week it was relieved...
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A publishing mouse?
Cambridge University Press has refused to publish a study of Macedonia on the grounds that it could provoke Greek terrorist reprisals. Its actions dismayed the author, Anastasia Karakasidou, and...
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A publishing mouse?
Cambridge University Press has refused to publish a study of Macedonia on the grounds that it could provoke Greek terrorist reprisals. Its actions dismayed the author, Anastasia Karakasidou, and...
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Equal misery reserved for e-library projects
Electronic library projects are likely to escape the worst effects of this year's higher education funding cuts. The funding bodies' Joint Information Systems Committee has taken a relatively mild 4...
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Fair's fair in a battle for votes
The past month has seen two bitter rows about education. The most prominent, the Battle of St Olave's, was a heady cocktail of selection in schools with a gripping subplot about hypocrisy and about...
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Don's Diary
FRIDAY. All-night technical preparations in London for our touring student production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, which we are taking to the West Bank and Gaza. Unsettling arrival in Israel:...
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Fertile fields of ideas
Over the past decades, research into higher education has developed from a small collection of studies with a narrow pedagogical orientation into a more comprehensive field encompassing a large...
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When alpha is a non-starter
Between 1983 and 1985 I held an Economic and Social Research Council project grant - the first that I had ever applied for. Since that time my research has been funded by a variety of European...
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Glass ceiling? More like a brick wall
Robin Dunbar's arguments (Grey natter, THES, January 26), like those of Geoff Miller whom he cites, are persuasive. But they have a blindspot with regard to their implications for women, especially...
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Whistle blown on Russell referees
Just before Christmas a colleague from another university asked me to be one of his nominated referees in his application for promotion. Nothing unusual in this, I have acted in such a capacity on...