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UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. Readerships: Ahmey Kondoz, lecturer, reader in the department of electronic and electrical engineering; P. Voke, senior lecturer, reader in the department of mechanical...
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Chairs
COVENTRY UNIVERSITY. Michael Tovey, dean of art and design, has been appointed professor of industrial design; Clive Richards, associate dean, professor of information design; Robert Pryce, pro vice...
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Rosie picture
(Photograph) - Rosie picture: Natural history illustration student Jonathan Cook and his portrait of London Zoo's Rosie, on show at the RCA.
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Appointments
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY. Barry Jackson, head of the school of visual communication design, has been appointed dean of the faculty of art, design and performing arts from August 1, succeeding John...
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Grants
É«ºÐÖ±²¥ UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM. Research councils: Mr E. A. Rees and Professor R. W. Davies, Pounds 138,030 from Economic & Social Research Council (economic development and centre-local...
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SuperCOSMOS
(Photograph) - Abreast of developments: Radiologists could find it easier to detect early breast cancer using a machine called SuperCOSMOS, which was designed and built at the Royal Observatory in...
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Net libel fears grow
Universities' fears that they could be sued for defamatory messages staff and students write on the Internet will receive little relief from a draft bill to be published next month. The bill may...
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Reward new like old, Boswell urged
Tim Boswell this week ducked a challenge to give the new universities a better deal for teaching. Sir Graham Bright, Conservative MP for Luton South, asked the further and higher education minister...
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Rift over colleges' push for university title
A move to persuade Gillian Shephard, the Secretary of State for Education, to agree new criteria for the use of the title "university college" threatens to split the higher education college sector....
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Gene team detects cancer clues
Scientists believe that they have traced a hereditary link to breast cancer and can predict which women can tolerate a stronger blast of radiation. Aisling Irwin reports. The photograph was taken in...
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Past imperfect, future tense
Historians in post-communist Eastern Europe are busy reclaiming the past. Huw Richards reports. A Russian joke of pre-glasnost vintage tells of Napoleon, Alexander the Great and Attila the Hun...
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The victim of a victim
Claire Sanders reports on the aftermath of the traumatic discovery of a dead baby in a university lavatory. On April 10 a cleaner from the private cleaning company, PHS Ltd, noticed that a sanitary...
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IT takes strain in Cyberland
I have recently discovered a new community. It is international, open and democratic. It inhabits what William Gibson called "cyberspace" and can be contacted through the Internet. It is growing...
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The classic dilemma
The discussions on the state of classics by Peter Jones and Nick Tate (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, May 19) are the latest addition to the decades-long concern as to whether the subject has a future. But what is the "...
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The speech writer
Lucy Hodges meets Deborah Tannen, the sociolinguist whose studies of how people talk to one another have made her an American household name. Sellotaped to the door of Deborah Tannen's office at...