Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF KEELE Gary Kelly, professor of English, University of Alberta, and Edward Larrissy, senior lecturer in English at Keele, have received professorships. HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY Philip...
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Fellowships
University of Bradford John Gardiner, head of the department of electrical and electronic engineering. University of Glamorgan Simon Weston, Falklands veteran, holder of Man of the Decade 1989; Hywel...
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Awards
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS T. Brooke Benjamin, Sedleian professor of natural philosophy, University of Oxford, has been named honorary member of ASME. He will receive the award at the...
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When the status quo is not an option
Where else would I get the opportunity to go to university at 37 and use that experience to change my career direction completely?" Bruce Nicol would say that, wouldn't he -- he is management...
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Blue chip partnership
The University of Nottingham makes millions of pounds from industry Colin Campbell explains. Recently it was announced that the University of Nottingham, with an annual income of Pounds 6.3 million,...
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Myriad of `other sources' fill funding breach
Since the early 1980s, when vice chancellors turned increasingly to a myriad of so-called "other sources" of income after the first Thatcher government sanctioned a 17 per cent squeeze on central...
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Under-exploited assets
As we head for the "knowledge society" of the 21st century, British universities seem only half awake, argues Sir Geoffrey Holland. The National Advisory Council on Education and Training Targets is...
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Cheque-book education
Ngaio Crequer traces the snap, crackle and pop of universities' attachment to Mammon. Universities that receive money from breakfast cereal foundations may raise eyebrows, but there is a long...
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Students to fight pay-later proposals
The Labour leadership of the National Union of Students will resist proposals outlined by the party-linked Commission on Social Justice for charging students. Jim Murphy, NUS president, said there...
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Hong Kong professions fear China degrees
Members of a China-appointed advisory committee have accused the Hong Kong government of discriminating against holders of Chinese university degrees. They want Chinese qualifications to be...
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Funders home in on top pay
Vice chancellors' salaries and those of other senior members of university staff may have to be approved by the Higher Education Funding Council for England in future following the furore over the...
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Busy business
Richard Portes, professor of economics at Birkbeck College, London, has been appointed to a chair at the London Business School. He will continue in his other roles as director of the Centre for...
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Fortune 500
The national university-industry collaboration initiative, the Teaching Company Scheme, has notched up more than 500 current projects for the first time. Its annual report for 1993/94 says the...
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Explosion charge
A lecturer is to be prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive after an explosion in a chemistry laboratory in which a student's left hand was seriously injured. Clive Bird, reader in chemistry at...
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Women on top
A female mathematician is to head Bournemouth University from December. Gillian Slater, 45, is pro vice chancellor at Manchester Metropolitan University. A woman scientist will also head the...