Alternative GPs
Family doctors are being taught about the benefits and dangers of complementary medicine in an Exeter University course believed to be the first of its kind in Europe. The joint initiative by the...
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Physics fillip
Aberdeen University has set up a new school of physics more than a decade after cuts turned physics into a service teaching unit. The school will teach engineering, bio-medical physics and bio-...
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Testing time
(Photograph) - Testing time: Nicholas O'Shaughnessy, an engineering lecturer at Cambridge University, finally got rid of his L-plates on his 13th driving test last week. The 40-year-old passed with...
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Public `paying for commercial research'
Universities are leaving themselves open to the accusation that they are "subsidising commercial work from the public purse" by not recovering costs from externally sponsored research, Graeme Davies...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from Perictione's boy: "This at any rate is my advice, that we should believe the soul to be immortal, capable of enduring all evil and all good, and always keep our feet...
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Speaking Volumes:Unbeaten Tracks in Japan
Marie Conte-Helm on Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan . I was introduced to Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan as a postgraduate at the East West Center of the University of Hawaii. It...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF TEESSIDE Readerships have been conferred on the following: Les Johnston, principal lecturer in criminology; Brian Mathews, lecturer in marketing; Gurdial Singh, principal lecturer in...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH LONDON Doctorates: Stanley Kalms, chairman, Dixons Group plc; John (Jock) Campbell, late chairman, Booker McConnell and Runnymede Trust; Sheila Rowbotham, author. Masters: Trevor...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN James Prosser, head of the department of molecular and cell biology, was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology. CARDIFF INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION The...
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Events
WEBER'S LEGACY A colloquium, "Max Weber - Culture - Politics", has been organised jointly by the German Historical Institute, University of London and London Guildhall University to take place on May...
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Chairs
GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Barry Quinn, previously principal research scientist with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia and senior lecturer in statistics,...
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Appointments
CCETSW The following have been appointed to the ruling council of the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work: Ziggi Alexander, director of corporate affairs, University College...
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Best defence
Christina Preston reports on a Chilean initiative to enrich and protect oral cultures through a multimedia network for teacher training in the country's poorest areas. The Mapuche Indian tribes in...
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Keys to the wired valley
Ealing has shed its defunct comedy heritage for ahigh-tech learning revolution, Simon Targett reports. Walk from South Ealing tube station and you pass a row of antique shops, a garage which has been...
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Hypertext misses the point of the Abbey habit
I was sorting some old papers recently and came across an article I had written 12 years ago. Reading through it, I immediately began editing: mentally red-marking and highlighting, changing the...