Fellowships
The Royal Society Fellows Christopher Bate, reader in the department of zoology, University of Cambridge; John Brady, BP professor of information engineering in the University of Oxford; Michael...
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Honorary degrees
University of East Anglia LittD: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, vice chancellor of the university since 1995; John Fowles, author of The Magus and The Collector who has lectured on several occasions in the...
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Swampy's smart set
The battles being waged by the new wave of green warriors, such as Swampy, are reflected in the rise on campus of environmental literary criticism, or ecocriticism. But as Jennifer Wallace discovers...
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Braising standards
In the second of our series on food, Prue Leith complains about the absence of cooking in education and calls on teachers and academics to embrace this 'fine art' It is now almost impossible for a...
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The last gasps of a dead tongue
Christie Davies argues that as the Welsh language will and must die out, encouraging people to learn it is a pointless exercise The study of Welsh is compulsory in all schools in Wales. In Gwynedd...
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Aspects of global history, as presented this week atthe Anglo- American historians'conference
Professor Terry Ranger, St Anthony's College, Oxford wants to break away from traditional histories of Europeans in black Africa by studying how Africans responded to Europeans in colonial times -...
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Forbidden melodies
In the first of a series of visits to academics' rooms, Kate Worsley is admitted to ethnomusicologist John Baily's shrine to the Afghan music banned by the Taliban Cross-legged, in jeans and stocking...
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Dog gains 86,000 years despite lack of bones
Gene research suggests tamed dogs have existed for more than 100,000 years. Tim Cornwell spoke to the researchers and their critics Modern man is about 100,000 years old, archaeologists say. But...
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History's bigger picture
This week's Anglo-American historians' conference in London aims to take on the world. Alan Mcafarlane charts its trends It is always worth looking at the development of theoretical systems from the...
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History's bigger picture
This week's Anglo-American historians' conference in London aims to take on the world. Harriet Swain looks at the renewed interest in global history They think big at Anglo-American history...
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Prizes
Menerva Educational Trust Essay Competition The trust, which aims to advance society's knowledge of women's potential for achievement in all areas of life, has announced Paula Gould as the 1997...
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Textiles with a point
(Photograph) - Mari Masuda beside her work for the visual arts degree show at Goldsmiths College, University of London, last week.
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Science shows signs of upturn
The crisis-point dearth of school-leavers applying for science degrees is over, Tony Higgins, chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service said this week. There has been an...
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Kennedy calls off raid on universities
HELENA Kennedy QC has been forced to clarify demands to redistribute resources between further and higher education after protests from vice chancellors seeking cross-sector unity in the campaign for...
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Factfile
68 per cent of academic staff are male, and 32 per cent are female 9 per cent of full-time professors are female, compared with 7 per cent the previous year 36 per cent of full-time staff in medicine...