Box Acc.2013/020, Box 127

Scope and Contents Correspondence about the relocation of a professor from Hull University to Edinburgh in 1989 (including the professor's personal details and CV), about the possible transfer of a lecturer from Heriot-Watt University to Edinburgh, about increases to class grants for departmental expenses and the funding of additional staff posts, about the official opening of the Pharmacology Building in George Square on 30 April 1970, about problems with the fume cupboards in the Department of Pharmacology,...

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Copy of job particulars for the Chair of Statistics, correspondence about the arrangements for the meetings of the Appointments Committee for the Chair, and comments on Chair candidates.

Scope and Contents Correspondence about the levels of regulation surrounding the use of animals in scientific procedures, copy of a Memorandum of Understanding between the University and Trinity College Dublin relating to collaborations in Neuroscience (signed by the University but not by Trinity College), correspondence about the funding arrangements for the post of Director of the Fujisawa Institute, expense claims for a trip to Japan in connection with the Fujisawa Institute, correspondence about the...

Scope and Contents Copies of HEFCE proposals for consultation on issues such as Quality Assurance in Higher Education, Information on Quality and Standards of Teaching and Learning, and An Enhancement-Led Approach to Quality Assurance. Correspondence about the University's responses to these consultations, and copies of application forms from University staff for institutional review posts with QAA. Also includes a copy of QAA's Handbook for Institutional Audit: England and QAA's draft Handbook for...

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Copy of QAA's April 2003 Handbook for Enhancement-Led Institutional Review: Scotland, copies of application forms from University staff for institutional review posts with QAA, copy of SHEFC and Universities UK circulars on Quality Assurance issues, and the University's response to some of these circulars.

Scope and Contents Correspondence with the Edinburgh University Animal Rights Society who were seeking permission to hold a demonstration on University property in May 1989, copies of posters and fliers for the demonstration, correspondence about security issues in University laboratories which used animals, correspondence about possible changes of use of rooms in Bush House, copy of the Edinburgh Centre of Rural Economy's Annual Report 1985-86, and correspondence about the sale of Bush House to the Electrical...

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Correspondence about the Technopole development at the Bush site including discussions with the Medical Research Council about primate accommodation, correspondence with Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Limited about legal and financial issues, and a copy of a marketing brochure for the Edinburgh Centre for Rural Research. Also includes agenda, papers and minutes for the ECRR Main Association meeting on 18 October 1993.

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Correspondence with a lecturer who had taken early retirement about delays in the calculation of his pension.