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Honorary degrees
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. LLD: Jacques Delors, former president of the European Commission; Fredrik Eaton, Canadian high commissioner in the United Kingdom (1994); John Hume, SDLP MP. DLitt:...
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Grants
KING'S COLLEGE LONDON. Research grants: Dr A. Rezazadeh, Pounds 130,432 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (study of InGaP/GaAs DHBTS for high frequency power applications);...
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Appointments
SEDA. The Staff and Educational Development Association has elected the Carol Baume, principal lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and Sally Brown, educational development adviser at the...
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Events
RAISING STANDARDS. Paul Black will lecture on "Ideology, evidence and the raising of standards" in the Great Hall, Strand Campus, King's College London on July 11 at 6pm. Information: Trevor Pearce,...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF SURREY. John Groeger, principal research fellow at the University of Leeds, has been appointed to the foundation chair in cognitive psychology; Sarah Hampson, a research scientist in...
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Replay for quality plan
Vice chancellors will discuss their response today to the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England's proposals for a single quality assurance agency. The response drafted for their consideration...
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French scientists condemn atom tests
The decision by French president Jacques Chirac to resume nuclear testing has triggered protests from French researchers, backed by scientists around the world. Scientists at the Orsay University,...
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Institutions think local on pay deals
Many higher education institutions want a major reduction in the number of pay bargaining groups down to either a single salary structure or at most two, according to a preliminary analysis carried...
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Plea fee
(Photograph) - Plea fee: Former Bar student Cecilia Hulse faces possible legal costs of up to Pounds 100,000 after losing her High Court appeal over a decision by the Council of Legal Education to...
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Newtonian time lord
David Lorimer talks to Nobel prize-winner Ilya Prigogine about introducing the arrow of time into the basic laws of physics. Ilya Prigogine has had a lifelong preoccupation with time. Years ago he...
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Turning battles into bunker hills
Anthony Gross calls on scholars to remember their duty and defend historic battlefields such as Tewkesbury from incursions by housing estates and golf courses. Most of the issues dealt with by the...
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Coercion by the Nile
Muhammad Mahmoud reports on the ordeal of an academic who has fallen foul of Egypt's Islamic law. Academic freedom and freedom of expression were dealt a severe blow two weeks ago in Egypt when an...
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Universal picture
Martin Rees describes how cosmologists aim to set our solar system in a grand evolutionary scheme by describing a cosmic history probably beginning with a'big bang'. Whilst this planet has been...