Awards
American Anthropological Association. The 1996 Distinguished Service Award was presented to Barbara Harrell-Bond, director and founder of the refugee studies programme, University of Oxford, in...
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Will it all end in tears?
The Tories may be heading for electoral meltdown, but Richard Cockett argues that no one should underestimate their ability to turn opposition to their advantage. The Conservative party tends to...
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Aberfan aftermath, Sir Ron replies: 'I believe advice was disinterested and just''
On January 17 Iain McLean wrote an article in The THES about the 1966 Aberfan disaster. Drawing on papers just released by the Public Record Office Professor McLean suggested that Sir Ron Dearing,...
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Let them watch Strindberg!
Peter Watkins, the director whose films outraged the establishment in the 1960s, is back warning students of the narrow conservatism of TV. Patrick Murphy reports. If it's Monday, it must be York....
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Global theatre
The world, it is frequently said, is becoming smaller as national boundaries are rendered irrelevant by the enveloping forces of globalisation. But is the phenomenon exaggerated? Huw Richards...
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Geneticist to explore Dutchmen's extra inches
In the first of an occasional series on up-and-coming researchers, Graham Lawton talks to biologist Armand Leroi. Why are Dutchmen taller than Pygmies? Why are elephants bigger than mice? According...
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Owl of Minerva sought as MPs fail to talk turkey
Brian Brivati calls on academics to sweeten the foul air of politics with refreshing ideas. The first real skirmishes of the 1997 general election have left a nasty taste in my mouth. If this is as...
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Chairs
University of Lancaster. The following consultants from Lancaster Acute Hospitals Trust have been appointed honorary professors: Allen Brown, consultant general physician with a special interest in...
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Grants
Queen's University, Belfast Charities. Dr D. Bell, Pounds 52,7 from British Heart Foundation (fellowship); Dr S. Doran, Pounds 20,516 from Airey Neave Trust (judicial responsibility); Professor P....
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Honorary degrees
University of Northumbria. DCL: Laing Barden, former director of Newcastle Polytechnic and vice chancellor of the university until 1996; Martin Trow, founding director of the centre of studies in...
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Deborah Davies, a part-time masters student in legal practice at the University of Westminster, has undertaken a research dissertation on the legal practice implications of students as consumers of...
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Appointments
Unesco. Federico Mayor, director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, has set up a 56-member international scientific advisory board to encourage greater...
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Universities split over share-out
THES reporters examine the fall-out from the research assessment exercise now that funding weightings are known FUNDING weightings attached to grades awarded in the latest research assessment...
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Prior options abandoned
THE GOVERNMENT has backed down on plans to privatise research council laboratories. The prior options study, a Government privatisation probe of more than 40 public sector research facilities,...
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Opera woos islands
THE Pavarotti Foundation has proposed setting up a classical music and opera college on the Hebridean island of Eigg. The plan would give the University of the Highlands and Islands project a fillip...