Rothschilds to beam OU across India
The Open University has recruited banking dynasty Rothschilds to raise Pounds 50 million in the City of London for establishing a satellite television network. The network will beam OU courses into...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD Research contracts Professors A. Day, L. Porter, Pounds 60,000 from Ford of Europe Inc (professorships/ directors of FordEquip MSc programme); Drs L. Kernohan and J. Lawler,...
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Fellowships
RSAMD The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama will confer three fellowships on March 21 to the following: James MacMillan, affiliate composer of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and visiting...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH LONDON Norman Ginsburg, head of division of health and social policy at South Bank University, professor and reader in social policy and administration. UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE Iain...
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Cabbage patch doll
(Photograph) - Cabbage patch doll: Cecilia Crighton has become head of programmes and deputy director of Liverpool Art School
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH LONDON Stephen Harvey, acting joint director of the University of Sunderland business school, director of the international office; Linda Mulcahy, senior lecturer and research...
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Slow climb up gender biased spires
Oxford and Cambridge universities have made progress over the past five years in providing opportunities for women, but there is still a long way to go, says a report from the Hansard Society. The...
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Academic answer to sale of aid agency
The Natural Resources Institute looks set to be taken over by a group of universities led by Greenwich. The Overseas Development Administration, which owns the NRI, announced this week that the...
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Labor's defeat signals turmoil
The conservatives' staggering win in Australia's federal election last weekend is expected to lead to severe disruption on university campuses. Higher education unions warned this week that they...
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The ruinous ghost of empire past
When blind eyes are turned to the past, eyes that no longer see the racism and exploitation of the British Empire but blaze with the remembered glory of a triumphant dominance, then a confection-like...
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Vile bodies
Our thought is so obsessed with the body that it has become trapped in a carcass of its own making. Valentine Cunningham believes it is time to move on. We are all somaticists nowadays. Like Philip...
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More classic lines
John Davies discovers in these culturally relative times that even the canon in Greek and Latin is not immune to revision. There has been much debate in recent years over the worth and composition of...
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Don's diary
SATURDAY. Hateful rain sheets down. Still, set off for Oxford to visit friend's daughters, one reading chemistry and the other English. Both have college rooms that are quite palatial compared to...
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Sorry Ollie
Just a nitpicking correction to the phrase quoted from Oliver Hardy in "Does the Rt Hon Lady . . ." (THES, Feb 23). It should have been "That's another fine mess you've GOTTEN me into!" Perhaps I...
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How to turn the league tables
To celebrate International Women's day today, The Times published a "league table", listing the 100 most powerful women in the world. While the criteria used for ranking potential candidates (...