Israel allowed first supercomputers
Israel is to purchase two American supercomputers for university research, following a change of policy by the United States government. The United States had barred export of supercomputers to...
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Liver links
(Photograph) - Liver links: Philip Love, vice chancellor of the University of Liverpool (right), and the city's lord mayor, Michael Black, were at Liverpool Town Hall for the launch of MerseyWorld,...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Ia McIlwaine, senior lecturer, has been awarded a readership in classification and indexing.
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Grants
ASTON UNIVERSITY Charities. Professor G. Harding and Dr S. Anderson, Pounds 65,009 from the Japanese Epilepsy Association (epilepsy and computer generated video display games). Research contracts....
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Events
DANCE OF MIDDLE WORLD Tim Shaw's sculptural project, his main focus since graduating in 1989, will be exhibited in a show called "The Dance of the Middle World", in Falmouth College of Art's Gallery...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL Peter Ainsworth, senior lecturer at the University of Manchester, has been appointed to a chair of French; Gehan Amaratunga, lecturer at the University of Cambridge, chair of...
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The Dance of the Middle World, a sculpture by Tim Shaw
(Photograph) - "The Dance of the Middle World", a sculpture by Tim Shaw, is on show at Falmouth College of Art
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF READING Sheila Corrall, director of Library and Information Services at Aston University, has been appointed librarian. INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS The following will take office...
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Beggared belief
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW. by Richard Hoggart. Chatto and Windus. 352pp, Pounds 18.00 - ISBN 0 7011 6501 4. The Uses of Literacy came out in 1957. In a far more beneficent and sunny climate for culture, it...
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Political potatoes too hot to handle
Student finances and support systems are at the centre of an intense debate again. It has echoes of the 1960s - the preoccupations then were expansion of higher education versus a threat to quality,...
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Speaking French is now 'non issue'
A narrow non-vote against Quebec separatism means that plans for French-language fluency to become a university entrance requirement are likely to be further postponed. This week's referendum, where...
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Unions rally behind whistleblowing policy
University and college lecturers' unions have called for sweeping changes in the governance of institutions in evidence presented to the Nolan Committee this week. All universities should be governed...
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Family of man dividedover in-laws
Did modern humansevolve from Neanderthals or wipe them out? Olga Wojtas sifts the latest archaeological evidence For almost the whole of this century, there has been a heated scientific debate about...
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Prisoners of gender
Women hold only 5 per cent of professorships in the UK. Helena Kennedy examines the different forms of male prejudice which have caused this marginalisation. In the 1860s Sophia Jex-Blake, determined...
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Down and out in Kentish obscurity
The crumbling house where Darwin lived and wrote On the Origin of Species could be rescued from decay by a Pounds 2.4 million grant from the National Lottery, Aisling Irwin reports Charles Darwin may...