Donors give Pounds 35m for loan launch
The number of black South African students receiving loans will treble to 70,000 this year following a three-month government fund-raising drive which netted more than Pounds 35 million (Rand 210m)....
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Subject lesson
(Photograph) - Subject lesson: the title of Andre Brink's novel Looking on Darkness is scratched on a cell wall below Pretoria Supreme Court. In yesterday's Amnesty lecture at Oxford's Sheldonian...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an African novelist who likes to quote Yeats: "The Commissioner went away, taking three or four of the soldiers with him. In the many years in which he had toiled to...
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Speaking Volumes: The Mediterranean and the Mediteranean World in the Age of Philip II
Peter Scott on Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediteranean World in the Age of Philip II . It would be neat to claim that I had actually been most deeply influenced by a book in my own...
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Promotions
ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON The title of reader in social research methods has been conferred on Ray Lee (former lecturer in the department of social policy and social science). UNIVERSITY...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER DLitt: Michael Jackson, controller BBC2; Sheila McKechnie, director of Shelter. DSc: Ivo Babuska, mathematics research professor at the University of Maryland, US; Brian...
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Events
KATHE KOLLWITZ This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of one of Germany's most talented draughtswomen and printmakers. A small exhibition of Kathe Kollwitz's etchings and woodcuts will...
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Correction
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE C. M. Reed was listed on January 20 as having been promoted to a chair. He was in fact promoted to a readership in information technology law.
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KENT The following appointments take effect on April 1, 1995: P. A. Clarkson (reader in differential equations at the University of Exeter) has been appointed to the chair of...
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A reconciler of distinction
Mind and World
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A vessel for a voyage of discovery
Chretien de Troyes: - Sealed in Parchment:
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A world and self haunted by voices
A Pitch of Philosophy:
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Angel wings caught in the winds of progress
Walter Benjamin's Philosophy:
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Compelled to be virtuous
Making Men Moral: