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Are you PFIable? Simon Targett looks at the consultants who can say if you are. "They're all nice guys. But in the end, they've got to make a profit, and they will do if you let them." Maggie Deacon...
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For whom the bell of the cashtill tolls
Are you PFIable? Alison Utley reports on research that says you are probably not. The Private Finance Initiative is endangering projects aimed at alleviating the most pressing social or economic...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE David Grant, lord-lieutenant of Durham, former managing director and chairman of Darchem Limited and former chairman of the council, has been appointed as the first visitor to...
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Awards
THE WOLFSON FOUNDATION The winner of the 1995 Wolfson History Prize is H. C. G. Matthew, professor at St Hugh's College Oxford. In recognition of his work Gladstone 1975-1898 (Oxford University Press...
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Grants
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY Research grants Professor R. Paul and Dr J. Brown, Pounds 188,203 (economic evaluation of adjuvant breast cancer treatment); Dr C. Clark, Pounds 192,639 from the Engineering and...
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Chairs
LANCASTER UNIVERSITY Maria Shevtsova, formerly at the University of Sydney and Rome's Teatro Ateneo and visiting professor at the University of St Petersburg, has been appointed professor in theatre...
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Election
THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH Honorary Fellows Frederick Dainton, chancellor of Sheffield University, formerly Dr Lee's professor of chemistry, Oxford University (1970-73), vice chancellor of...
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Explorers in the psychic world
A group of British experimenters are holding weekly meetings in an effort to counteract the Arizona conference's approach to untangling consciousness. The group has been meeting to hear about such...
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US agents use 'wiretap' to trap Argentine hacker
American investigators have used a "computer wiretap" to catch an Argentine university student charged with hacking into United States military data, writes Jon Marcus. Government agents got...
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Federal expression
(Photograph) - Federal expression: a federation of eight colleges in Selly Oak, Birmingham will share a new multimedia library built with their combined resources. As work begins on the Pounds 5.4...
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Free to be offensive
After months of panic over university crackdowns and government restrictions, campus users of computer networks have received some reassurance from top United States legal experts that their fears...
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Object lessons in Tel Aviv
Helena Flusfeder takes a tour of Israel's first 3-D virtual museum. Stylised triangular trees stand in front of the museum on the computer screen. It is the prototype of Israel's first three-...
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Make the most of the message
Technology cannot switch on charisma, but it can help a poor communicator improve, reports Christina Preston. When Will Hutton recently gave a talk based on his book The State We're In unassisted by...
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The nous network
David Rudnick reports on a European initiative that links employers and graduate job seekers. Six British universities are helping to pioneer a project which brings together graduates looking for...