A question of value for money
As Budget Day approaches there have been the usual leaks about fights within the Cabinet over public expenditure cuts. The two alleged victims are social security and education. This is bad news for...
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Worth its weight?
If the future of book publishing is in peril, humanities academics may turn to the electronic networks. Anita Roy laments the decline of the monograph, below, while Diane Hofkins, right, reports on a...
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Appointments
LANGUAGE TEACHING The following have been appointed to the governing body of the Centre for Information of Language Teaching and Research: Derek Winslow, director and chief executive of Cardiff...
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A campus of gowns and veils
Simon Targett reports from a Malaysian university that is seeking a rapprochement with the western intellectual tradition. The man with the moustache stared into the tinted taxi window with...
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The Bell Curve is sending shock waves through America
Charles Murray, the conservative social scientist whose book The Bell Curve is sending shock waves through America is not surprised the book is causing a furore. In fact he is relishing the debate. "...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE The university's first honorary degrees will be conferred upon the following: DLitt: David Wilson, former governor and commander-in-chief of Hong Kong, chairman of...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF YORK Research grants Drs A. Marvin, J. Dawson and J. Angus, Pounds 157,719 from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (diffuse screened rooms using pseudo-random phase...
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Awards
FRAENKEL PRIZE Richard Evans, professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, has been awarded the Fraenkel prize in contemporary history, general section, for his manuscript From...
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Events
ANTHONY CARO The Whitworth Art Gallery is hosting the first retrospective of Sir Anthony Caro's table sculpture in celebration of his 70th birthday. The exhibition traces the exploration, by one of...
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Words' worth
Language Shock; Understanding The Culture Of Conversation By Michael Agar, William Morrow, 224pp, $22.00, ISBN 0 688 12399 6. We are all familiar with the notion of culture shock, when we find...
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Taxing questions for NUS leaders
I was disappointed to see the democratically elected president of the National Union of Students refusing to promote democratically decided policy on the funding of students in further and higher...
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Taxing questions for NUS leaders
Jim Murphy welcomes the publication of the Institute for Public Policy Research Commission on Social Justice on behalf of the National Union of Students. His organisation has made some impressive...
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Queen's speech
Legislation is to be introduced to improve conditions for people with disabilities and to develop the management of the National Health Service, it was announced in the Queen's speech this week. No...
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Food extension
A Pounds 1 million extension to Reading University's food studies building was opened this week. The extension, financed by 25 companies in the food industry, will house laboratory space, additional...
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In bloom
(Photograph) - In bloom: Colin Muir of the University of Bournemouth models a stone acanthus leaf as part of the university's architectural conservation work. As well as being one of the winners of...