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UNIVERSITY OF KENT AT CANTERBURY. Readerships: Stephen Chan, senior lecturer and director of the university's London Centre of International Relations, reader in international relations; Brian Salter...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF DURHAM. DCL: John Hall, chairman of Newcastle United football club; Howard Phelps, chairman of the council of the university and former director of operations for British Airways. MA:...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Fellowships and honorary fellowships have been conferred as follows: Fellows: Geoffrey Burnstock, professor of anatomy and head of the department of anatomy and...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX. The following readers have been promoted to professorships: Brian Hamnett, department of history; Tim Hatton, economics; Lydia Morris and Ken Plummer, sociology; and Tom Sorell,...
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Appointments
QUEEN MARGARET COLLEGE, EDINBURGH. Dr Derek Doyle, fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of General Practitioners and an expert in the field...
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Students prepared to pay portion
People undergoing any sort of post-16 education should pay something towards it, according to a new survey of student representatives. But there should be no move to introduce top-up fees of the sort...
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Risk-takers show the way
Post-compulsory education from soup to nuts: not a new idea (what is?) but one which De Montfort University has set about realising with uncommon gusto (page 6). The move, pursued stealthily through...
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Foster points policy finger at Labour
The Labour party has been challenged by the Liberal Democrats to "put up or shut up" on its plans for further and higher educationfunding. Don Foster, the Liberal Democrat education and employment...
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Crossfire in la Rue du Dragon
French intellectuals have regained a place on their country's political map. Stella Hughes explores their growing role Without leaving the Latin Quarter and its academic bookshops, university...
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A reluctant guru on matters between the ears
Howard Gardner talks to John Davies about his theory of human intelligence and his plans to write a book about unusual achievers If Howard Gardner is an authority on intelligence, he sometimes seems...
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The Bible bashers
Keith Whitelam explains to Simon Targett that the Jewish version of the Old Testament is a fiction designed to legitimise Israel and that the history of the Palestinian people has been silenced....
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Reality of ancient Israel
Keith Whitelam explains to Simon Targett that the Jewish version of the Old Testament is a fiction designed to legitimise Israel and that the history of the Palestinian people has been silenced....
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The heavy lid of the Mitterrand years
Asked in 1974 if he would vote for Mitterrand, Jean-Paul Sartre replied: "The problem is not to replace . . . I forget his name . . . ah, yes! Pompidou with Mitterrand. Mitterrand will be the...
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Jury out in the cold on science
Scientists must foster the public's trust in order to improve understanding of their work, argues John Durant In the midst of unprecedented scientific and technological progress our culture is beset...
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The chattering sexes
All-male and all-female groups converse differently. While women's voices combine and overlap, men take it in turns to hold court. Jennifer Coates explains Having friends is something most of us take...