Eyeopener
In the first of a series in which academics and filmmakers discuss their favourite film, Anita Desai savours the powerfully visceral impact of Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali. I have never met anyone...
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Victory of coalition heralds end of annual quaily round
The standards ball Labor set rolling in 1992 failed to reach its target but rocked university complacency on its way, claims Don Aitkin. The Australian government is for the first time considering...
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Rabbit power
Nigel Wace has invented the world's first "hunger-driven" lawnmower. Powered by rabbits Flotsam and Jetsam, the machine rolls across lawns while its inmates nibble and fertilise. Dr Wace and his two...
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Planet Hollywood
Cinema may have been invented by the French but its first century has been dominated by Americans. Huw Richards looks at the world's love affair with the magic from Hollywood. A humorist, as so often...
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Passport to the world
In the relative quiet that seems to permeate the three rural campuses of Charles Sturt University, it is difficult to imagine the turmoil that surrounded this young institution's launch into the...
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Chairs
CITY UNIVERSITY, LONDON Geoff Meads, former chief executive of Cambridgeshire Family Health Service Authority and director of primary and community care in Wessex, professor of health services...
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Facelift for Australian gothic
Traditionalist University of Sydney is sprucing up its image for the market, Susannah Smith writes. From the picturesque, gothic buildings at the University of Sydney's main campus, the sounds of...
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Grants
IMPERIAL COLLEGE, LONDON Charities Dr P. Sugden, Pounds 118,769 from the British Heart Foundation (regulation of stress-activated subfamilies of the mitogen-activated protein kinase family and their...
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Double take
(Photograph) - Double take: Natasha Richardson opens a digital media studio at Bradford University in honour of her father, the late Tony Richardson, who was brought up above a chemists in the town....
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What the HECS of a success
Student loans injected a dose of financial reality into Australian universities. Geoff Maslen Australia's university students enjoy a system of financial support through government allowances and...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Readerships have been conferred on the following. Senior research fellows: Monty Charles, reader in radiation physics; Christine MacArthur, reader in maternal and child...
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Poles apart
(Photograph) - Poles apart: Henryk Urich, former professor of neuropathology at London University, comes face to face with his sculpture at the 55th and final reunion of graduates of the Polish...
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Sting in the tale of a magic formula
Student loans injected a dose of financial reality into Australian universities. Linda Christmas look at the results. Most people in Australia remember the fuss. There were protests and placards and...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH LONDON In its centenary year, the University of North London has appointed its first writer in residence. Deborah Levy, a prolific writer, was described in a review in The Sunday...
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How two vice chancellors see it
John Hay, vice chancellor of the University of Queensland: "HECS is a reasonable scheme. On the whole, it addresses the needs of first-degree students. The biggest problem is that all students pay...