Honorary degrees
SOUTHAMPTON INSTITUTE DBA: Jeffrey Sterling, executive chairman of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. DDes: Gert Dumbar, chief executive of Studio Dumbar, former head of the...
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Appointments
THE ROYAL SOCIETY. Aaron Klug, director of the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, has been elected president of the Royal Society, from December 1 for five years....
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Awards
WEIGELT-WALLACE AWARD Angus Wallace, head of orthopaedic surgery at the Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, has been awarded $50,000 from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Centre in Dallas...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Charities Dr D. Finnegan, Pounds 52,957 from the Wellcome Trust (molecular studies of transposition in drosophila); Dr P. Fantes, Pounds 44,453 from the Cancer Research...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER. Catherine Davies, senior lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College, chair of Spanish; Dean Paxon, visiting senior fellow in Manchester Business School, chair of finance (...
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Should FE college governors be paid?
In the further education sector one of the great strengths of governors, and one which I believe enhances their credibility in discussion and debate with the Government and the Further Education...
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Space probed
SCIENCE. Charles Darwin's face gazed out of a lot of newsprint in The THES this year as sociobiologists went public over their controversial work, which they now regard as firmly based in science....
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Budget leaves nip in the air
FUNDING. Academics have been moaning about cheese-paring for years, but this was not the alternative they wanted. The old Soviet-era joke about the state of Russian agriculture - "About average -...
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1995 AD: Anno Darwinis?
The year began with an interview with academic and writer Wole Soyinka, Africa's first Nobel laureate for literature. Soyinka, who spent months in jail for promoting peace with breakaway Biafra...
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Pay on Labor'selection agenda
AUSTRALIA. This was the year that universities in Australia grappled with enterprise bargaining. Urged on by federal government, academics and administrators on every campus spent months negotiating...
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Colonial writers lost in the post
Postcolonial studies is drowning in a tidal wave of jargon, conceptual inanities and political exhibitionism argues Russell Jacoby. Just when poststructuralism, postmodernism and deconstructionism...
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Events
ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. The University of Hertfordshire has organised an environmental education conference on January 11-12 focussing on: European Union facilitating programmes; curriculum...
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Hopkins on a song
Sir Anthony Hopkins has donated nearly Pounds 400,000 to his former college, the Welsh College of Music and Drama, paving the way to a further Pounds 1.1 million National Lottery handout for two new...
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Danger warning about radon leaks
Radon, the cancer-causing gas that seeps out through the ground, may be prevalent in areas previously regarded as safe, according to a British Geological Survey study. The area includes a stretch...
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Women show staying power
Under-representation of women in science subjects is a global phenomenon no matter what the country's level of development, according to Unesco's third World Education Report. Girls in many regions...