Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Fly from Heathrow at 7am with a brief stopover at Frankfurt and then by Ukraine Air International to Simferopol, capital of the Crimea. The flight is remarkably pleasant, as is the wine...
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Top-up fee planned for postgrads
Lancaster University is planning to charge all its postgraduate students a "top-up fee" of Pounds 30 from 1996/97. Paul McGreal, general secretary of the student union at Lancaster, said: "This is...
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Entente cordiale
(Photograph) - Entente cordiale: French poet and critic Jacques Roubaud (centre) relaxes after giving the inaugural Saintsbury lecture at Edinburgh University. The departments of French and English...
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Grants
CARDIFF INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. European funds. T. Dakin, Pounds 820,000 from the European Union (LINES, project using Internet to improve communications between college databases throughout...
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Fellowships
SCRE. The Scottish Council for Research in Education has awarded fellowships to the following: Ian Morris, former head of the research and intelligence unit of the Scottish Office Education...
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Events
ANTIQUITY TO ABSTRACTION. An exhibition of Lancaster University's art collection will be shown at the Peter Scott Gallery until December 1 (Monday to Friday: 12pm to 5pm; Thursday 12pm to 5pm and 6pm...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE. Janet Bainbridge, divisional leader in chemical and biotechnological sciences, professor of biotechnology and food science. UNIVERSITY OF DERBY Professorships have been...
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Appointments
SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. Garth Foster, chairman for the Species Survival Commission of the World Conservation Union, has been appointed head of the environmental sciences department at the...
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Learning power
(Photograph) - This table, compiled by The THES, lists the outcomes of the teaching quality assessment exercise carried out in English universities and colleges by the Higher Education Funding...
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Nations and Nationalism
The journal Nations and Nationalism, reviewed in The THES on October 20, has five editors not four as listed. The fifth editor is Kelvin Knight.
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A winning ticket
In a competitive age, the more informed and knowledgeable the manager, the better the decision, argue David Knights and Chris Green. In these times of limited funds from the state, many academics are...
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Praise be Ford
Ken Mortimer argues that staff development in the car company giant is a prerequisite to survival in the brave new world of technology. Twenty-five years ago Ford was known as one of the best...
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HEBE set to close
Higher Education Business Enterprises Ltd, the higher education information agency, is set for closure. Today's meeting of the council of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals, joint...
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Balkan briefs: Albanian students
(Photograph) - Balkan briefs: high powered Albanian students including a judge and two "inspectors of law" set to work on the gruelling one-year common professional examination being offered by the...
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Patent battle over life
Academics have joined a campaign against the patenting of life forms in the lead up to two important European decisions on patents. The campaign, run by the Genetics Forum, involves the signing of a...