Appointments
LANGUAGE TEACHING The following have been appointed to the governing body of the Centre for Information of Language Teaching and Research: Derek Winslow, director and chief executive of Cardiff...
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A campus of gowns and veils
Simon Targett reports from a Malaysian university that is seeking a rapprochement with the western intellectual tradition. The man with the moustache stared into the tinted taxi window with...
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The Bell Curve is sending shock waves through America
Charles Murray, the conservative social scientist whose book The Bell Curve is sending shock waves through America is not surprised the book is causing a furore. In fact he is relishing the debate. "...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE The university's first honorary degrees will be conferred upon the following: DLitt: David Wilson, former governor and commander-in-chief of Hong Kong, chairman of...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF YORK Research grants Drs A. Marvin, J. Dawson and J. Angus, Pounds 157,719 from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (diffuse screened rooms using pseudo-random phase...
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Awards
FRAENKEL PRIZE Richard Evans, professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, has been awarded the Fraenkel prize in contemporary history, general section, for his manuscript From...
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Events
ANTHONY CARO The Whitworth Art Gallery is hosting the first retrospective of Sir Anthony Caro's table sculpture in celebration of his 70th birthday. The exhibition traces the exploration, by one of...
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Words' worth
Language Shock; Understanding The Culture Of Conversation By Michael Agar, William Morrow, 224pp, $22.00, ISBN 0 688 12399 6. We are all familiar with the notion of culture shock, when we find...
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Squabbles break out on training
Training and Enterprise Council chiefs have challenged further education college leaders to provide them with hard evidence of TECs running courses in direct competition with further education...
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Yellow cards in action
University departments that fail any aspect of new quality assessment gradings will face funding council sanctions unless they can show an improvement within a year. This week the Higher Education...
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Quality chief condemns drain on resources
A Higher Education Quality Council director has condemned the sector's so-called quality industry as a drain on vital resources which "is itself threatening quality." John Bull, vice chancellor of...
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Miller's house
(Photograph) - Miller's house: Queen's Building, at the University of East Anglia, has just won a Royal Institute of British Architects regional award. The building combines schools of occupational...
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Head found
The long-awaited appointment of a chief executive to head the new Teacher Training Agency was announced by the Department for Education this week. The post has been filled by Anthea Millet, director...
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Extra funding
Universities have been invited to bid for extra funds for special library collections and the Computers in Teaching Initiative. The four national funding bodies plan to add two new CTI centres to the...
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Boucher at UMIST
The new principal and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology will be Bob Boucher, now pro vice chancellor of the University of Sheffield. He is a...