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Manchester Metropolitan

Barry Plumb, professor, pro vice chancellor and dean of the faculty of science and engineering, has been appointed academic director from September 1997; Richard Moody, former head of food and consumer studies at Robert Gordon Institute, head of the department of food and consumer technology.

51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Paisley

Seamus McDaid, dean of the faculty of business at Glasgow Caledonian 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ, has been appointed vice principal, succeeding Bill Steveley.

Trafford Park Manufacturing Institute Harold Hankins, former principal and vice chancellor of the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, has been appointed chairman of the institute.