New-style degrees get convert
The first signs of a consensus over abolishing traditional degree classifications may have been seen at last week's quality conference staged by Goldsmiths College. Calls for a review and possible...
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Phoenix focuses space hopes
Space scientists are expected to learn next week whether their dreams of relaunching the ill-fated Cluster mission, which came to an abrupt end last June, will come true. Nine months after the rocket...
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Bring FE into the fold, urges NUS
Students have pledged their support for Sir Ron Dearing's inquiry into the future of higher education, but want more of a voice for further education. More than 1,500 delegates at the annual...
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Tory MPs angry at Welsh funding plan
A House of Commons committee with a Conservative majority has criticised the funding of further education in Wales. The Welsh Affairs committee, in a report issued this week, said the Government...
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Graduates 'too good for the job'
MORE THAN a third of graduates in the United Kingdom are "over educated" and expansionist higher education policies should be checked, a team of economists argued this week. Peter Dolton and Anna...
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Moray rejects merger talks call
MORAY House Institute of Education has angrily rejected a call from its estranged partner, Heriot-Watt University, to be involved in talks about its future. Moray House has been an associated college...
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Lecturers withhold marks in temp war
Legislation to tackle the problem of Spain's army of temporary contract lecturers could be on the statute book by the end of the academic year. Possibilities include creating a new body of permanent...
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Soros head expelled from Minsk
The director of the Soros Foundation's office in Belarus was expelled from the country last week. According to the information bureau of the presidential administration, Peter Byrne, an American, had...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from an emigre historian: "When seeking for a partner worthy of the delectable Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm created the Duke of Dorset, an aristocratic paragon,...
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Chairs
University of Sussex The following have been promoted to professorships: Vivien Hart, reader in American studies, former librarian at Hamilton College in New York; Ladislaus Lob, reader in German,...
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Grants
University of Glasgow Research grants Professor P. Kemp, Pounds 45,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council (additional funding to core grant on urban studies); Dr D. Diver, Pounds 86,483...
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Honorary degrees
University of Oxford DCL: Roman Herzog, president of the Federal Republic of Germany; Martin Jacomb, chairman of the British Council; Peter Taylor, former Lord Chief Justice of England. DLitt:...
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Awards
City University, London C. Henderson, professor of petrology, has been awarded the Schlumberger Medal for 1996 by the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain. The award recognises scientific...
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Fellowships
Royal Society of Edinburgh The following were elected as ordinary fellows of the society: Ian Alexander, regius professor and head of department of plant and soil science, University of Aberdeen;...
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Cloning Cathy and Jane
Bronte Transformations