Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. DCL: Betty Boothroyd, speaker of the House of Commons and MP for West Bromwich; John Wilson, director of the Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind. DLitt: Donald Davidson,...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL. Charities Professors M. Orme, M. Molyneux and Dr P. Winstanley, Pounds 122,484 from The Wellcome Trust (research in clinical tropical medicine). Research grants Dr R. Whyman...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE. Janet Sprent, head of the department of biological sciences and a member of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, has been appointed deputy principal. CILT Martin...
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Events
THE TIME MACHINE. An international symposium has been arranged to mark the centenary of H. G. Wells's scientific romance. The Time Machine: Past, Present and Future will be held on July 26-29 at...
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Chairs
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE, LONDON. Roger Slee, lecturer in the school of cultural and policy studies at Queensland University of Technology, to the chair in education; Howard Caygill, lecturer in the school...
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Â鶹 is where childhood is
Leaving the parental home has increasingly become a "rite of passage" in the past two decades, replacing marriage as the defining event of independent adulthood, according to research from the...
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Onwards and upwards
(Photograph) - Onwards and upwards: a week of celebrations to mark the London School of Economics's centenary were crowned on Wednesday with the news that the school's professor of international law...
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Croydon becomes a Sussex college
Croydon College has become a college of the University of Sussex in a move which reflects the blurring of traditionally rigid boundaries between further and higher education. Croydon, which offers...
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The not so magic mountain
David Walker reports on new criticism of Thomas Mann Here, in Britain, literary iconoclasm is a kind of sport, not quite as lucrative as amateur rugby but appealing, it seems, to many readers....
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A narrow gauge
Richard Pring disagrees with James Tooley's argument, set out in last week's THES, that school exams should be replaced by IQ tests The most surprising aspect of James Tooley's column in last week's...
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A woman of the world
John Davies meets Rosalyn Higgins, the first female judge appointed to the International Court of Justice in the Hague In a corridor in the London School of Economics law department last month there...
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Dons, divas and ruff types
A new exhibition at the Paris Opera has triggered a reappraisal of academe's relationship with the grandest of the performing arts. Stella Hughes reports The grand central staircase and the public...
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The great unwashed
In the latest in our occasional series, Martyn Kelly talks to Richard Lacey about the latter's first published research, the conclusions of which have become accepted clinical practice Professor...
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Free range thinking
John Webster believes we spend too much time talking about animal rights and too little minimising animal suffering. Aisling Irwin met him What kind of man can hold, simultaneously, the following two...
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Found wanting, needs judgement
The merging of the Universities Funding Council and the Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council sectors of higher education meant that the funding of universities coming from varying starting...