Redundancies loom
A fifth of English higher education universities and colleges expect to make staff redundant or encourage early retirement in the next four years, according to funding council returns. Their...
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Labour blasts review for ignoring sleaze
The Government's review of higher education came under Labour Party fire this week for failing to tackle such key issues as management and accountability. The Department for Education has launched...
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Chairs
QUEEN MARY AND WESTFIELD COLLEGE The following titles have been conferred on: P. A. R. Ade (reader in physics) professor of experimental physics; R. Bonnett (professor of inorganic chemistry) Scotia...
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Grants
ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL. Research grants Dr J. R. F. Walters, Pounds 114,808 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (cellular control of the expression on...
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Awards
Lakatos Award 1994 Michael Dummett, emeritus professor of logic, University of Oxford, has been awarded the Lakatos Award for his book Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics, by the London School of...
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Events
Colour And Line. Five centuries of woodcuts will be on show at the Hunterian Art Gallery until January 28. An illustrated catalogue is available. The woodcuts include the English artist John Baptist...
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Appointments
TIMES SUPPLEMENTS Steven Lucy has been appointed to the newly created position of deputy advertisement director to the Times Supplements. Previously, Mr Lucy was recruitment sales manager of the...
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Armed police guard exams
Armed police supervised examinations at the University of Karachi this week as escalating communal strife came close to paralysing Pakistan's largest city. After last weekend's violence when at least...
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Art schools take the highway to Europe
Three British art schools have launched a ground-breaking interactive multimedia link in collaboration with institutions in France and Spain. The initiative is part of the European Union's Inter-Arc...
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Copyright pact on cards
British and American librarians and university administrators look set to join forces in developing a framework to help institutions manage intellectual property rights as the information technology...
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MSc launched on the Internet
Southampton University has launched a master's degree course in information engineering by email. It is for employees of the computer giant IBM. Most of the modular programme comprises material...
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Pigging out
(Photograph) - Pigging out: Munch me, crunch me, electric lunch me by Louise McKeever, a second-year fine art student at Cardiff art school. The work is the result of a collaborative multimedia...
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College devises campus network
Edge Hill College has drawn up a radical strategic plan to create an information technology centre of excellence in the north-west. The college, based in Ormskirk, Lancashire but with satellite...
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Esso fuels green education package
Mechanical engineers at Surrey University have won a Pounds 15,000 grant from the petroleum firm Esso to develop a multimedia teaching and learning package for energy and environmental management....
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Robot tests virtual reality
How real is virtual reality? Psychologist Martin Crawshaw at Hull university aims to find out with help from a robot developed by his colleagues in the electronic engineering department. The device,...