Call for minister at Pakistan meeting
Britain should raise grants to the Commonwealth distance-learning organisation and increase the number of Commonwealth scholarships and fellowships, according to the Council for Education in the...
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Ismaili centre for west
The Aga Khan University is to open an institute dedicated to the study of Islamic civilisations in an attempt to counter prejudice in the face of the spread of fundamentalism. The institute, to be...
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East is a cultural Eden
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Rudyard Kipling was thinking of Europe and Asia when he wrote these verses. I quote them not just in continued amazement at what...
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The story of a beautiful molecule
Science is founded on principles of objectivity. Scientists seek to be objective in conducting their research, and claim to achieve that objectivity. They often extend the orthodoxy of objectivity to...
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Why say au revoir when adieu will do?
What really persuaded Jill Ker Conway to write the first volume of her autobiography was the persistent praise for Crocodile Dundee, the movie that captivated the public with its romantic portrayal...
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`How many lives was it worth?'
The name above his study door -- in neatly painted letters, white on black -- was T. D. Weldon and, although the initials did not actually stand for "Territorial Decoration'', they might well have...
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Redundancies loom
A fifth of English higher education universities and colleges expect to make staff redundant or encourage early retirement in the next four years, according to funding council returns. Their...
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Labour blasts review for ignoring sleaze
The Government's review of higher education came under Labour Party fire this week for failing to tackle such key issues as management and accountability. The Department for Education has launched...
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Chairs
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE The following titles have been conferred on: P. A. R. Ade (reader in physics) professor of experimental physics; R. Bonnett (professor of inorganic chemistry) Scotia...
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Grants
ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL. Research grants Dr J. R. F. Walters, Pounds 114,808 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (cellular control of the expression on...
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Awards
Lakatos Award 1994 Michael Dummett, emeritus professor of logic, University of Oxford, has been awarded the Lakatos Award for his book Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics, by the London School of...
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Events
Colour And Line. Five centuries of woodcuts will be on show at the Hunterian Art Gallery until January 28. An illustrated catalogue is available. The woodcuts include the English artist John Baptist...
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Appointments
TIMES SUPPLEMENTS Steven Lucy has been appointed to the newly created position of deputy advertisement director to the Times Supplements. Previously, Mr Lucy was recruitment sales manager of the...
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Armed police guard exams
Armed police supervised examinations at the University of Karachi this week as escalating communal strife came close to paralysing Pakistan's largest city. After last weekend's violence when at least...
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Art schools take the highway to Europe
Three British art schools have launched a ground-breaking interactive multimedia link in collaboration with institutions in France and Spain. The initiative is part of the European Union's Inter-Arc...