Sex, drugs and student hall
Joseph Evans argues that more moral control would make university residence a home from home. If charity begins at home, then we should be thinking more about what sort of home we are offering young...
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Rustling up an Ivy League
When the officers of our Students Union came to talk to me last week I was struck, not for the first time, by the clarity of their vision and by the significance of their questions. Not for them that...
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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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Squabbles break out on training
Training and Enterprise Council chiefs have challenged further education college leaders to provide them with hard evidence of TECs running courses in direct competition with further education...
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Yellow cards in action
University departments that fail any aspect of new quality assessment gradings will face funding council sanctions unless they can show an improvement within a year. This week the Higher Education...