Box Acc.2013/020, Box 86

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Correspondence about the establishment of the Robert Schlapp Lectures, including publicity material for the lectures and guest lists for some of the lectures.

Scope and Contents Correspondence about increases to class grants for departmental expenses and the funding of additional staff posts, about faults in a recently purchased cryogenics unit in 1980, about the Edinburgh Concurrent Supercomputer Project including minutes of Users' meetings and Newsletters dated May 1987 and August 1987, about the possible transfer of atomic physics research staff from the University of Stirling to Edinburgh in 1990, about the job description for the Executive Director of the...

Scope and Contents Copy of the Department of Politics Research Report for 1988-1991, copy of the Department's Annual Report 1988-1989, copy of the periodical 'Politics for Adults' No.5 August 1982 produced by the Extramural Department, correspondence on the organisation of Defence Studies within the Department of Politics, publicity material for a series of Festival Lectures delivered by the Department in August-September 1981, correspondence about increases to class grants for departmental expenses and the...

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Correspondence about the work of the Department's Alcohol Research Group including the Group's Annual Reports for 1982-1983, 1988-1989, 1989-1990 and 1990-1991, about the freezing of the Chair of Psychiatry in 1985, and about staffing issues. Includes minutes of meetings of the Specialty Advisory Group in Psychiatry and the Area Division of Psychiatry.

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Correspondence about putting up a plaque to commemorate Dr Wong Fun (who was the University's first Chinese graduate in 1855), copy of a review of the 1997/98 activities of the Edinburgh China Institute, and a copy of the ECI's accounts as at 31 July 1999.

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Files primarily related to different aspects of university administration and governance.

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Copies of the University of Hong Kong Bulletin and the University of New South Wales Uniken newsletter issued in 2000, correspondence about improving student mobility between U21 universities, copies of event programmes and minutes for the meetings of various U21 groups, and correspondence about the visit of an academic from another U21 university to Edinburgh.

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Agendas, papers and minutes for the meetings of various U21 groups, correspondence about student exchanges under the terms of U21, and correspondence about U21's Professional Portability Project for Accounting.

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Correspondence about collaborations with various universities, including a signed copy of a minute of variation with Heriot-Watt University for a collaborative degree in Financial Mathematics and a signed copy of a memorandum of agreement between French and Scottish universities for joint PhDs.