US backs apartheid protesters
The American embassy in Tokyo has backed protests by foreign teachers at Japanese state universities against what they claim are "systematic dismissals" of foreign academics over a certain age and "...
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Final word
This week's Final Word comes from a pre-war high-flier with a mystical streak: "Only the Spirit, breathing upon the clay, can create Man." The winner of last week's competition, who correctly...
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Speaking Volumes: Moby-Dick
A. Robert Lee on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick . A summer vacation job clerking at the Army and Navy Store in 1963 might not seem the likeliest of contexts for a first close encounter with Moby-Dick....
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD. Readerships: Michael Slater, senior lecturer in chemical engineering takes up a readership in separations technology; Christopher Pass, managerial economics lecturer is now a...
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Events
MAURICE COCKRILL EXHIBITION. Nottingham University will present a major retrospective of Maurice Cockrill's paintings at the Djanogly Gallery, for the first time in 12 years. The exhibition tells the...
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Chairs
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY. Mark Schaffer, research fellow in the centre for economic performance at London School of Economics has been appointed to the professorship in the centre for economic reform...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. Eric Fernie has been appointed director of the Courtauld Institute of Art, from October 1995, succeeding Michael Kauffmann on his retirement. UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND Andrew...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a pre-war high-flier with a mystical streak: "Only the Spirit, breathing upon the clay, can create Man." Entries should be submitted to Final Word, The ThEs, Admiral...
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How to measure mission success
When higher education minister Tim Boswell spoke to the recent English funding council conference, the media predictably focused on his criticism of the council's and Committee for Vice Chancellors...
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Opinion
The letter from N. G. McCrum (THES April 21) should have stated that in 1993, the ratio of A and B grades obtained by girls taking modern language A levels to those obtained by boys was 0.90, a small...
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Hi-tech bid for station site
The University of North London and the National Film and Television School made a joint bid this week for Millenium funds to turn derelict lands and buildings behind King's Cross station, London,...
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Farewell to freelancers
Graduate Education in Britain
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Britain's nationalised industry
The State and ÌÇÐÄVlog
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Flights of fancy, descents into hell
A Passion for Wings:
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New tomorrows, stacks of problems
The New University Library - Innovation in Information