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  1. Timeless, unlike technology

    Exposure to Matisse's dancing forms led Peter Hill to a eureka moment: it is art, not science, that truly evokes the future

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  2. Precision confidently worn

    Anne Hogan finds the Merce Cunningham dancers exude technical prowess but also detects diffidence

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  3. Daytime TV: Debts and honour

    Chilled by a Faustian tale, Gary Day finds an analysis of the UK's national debt both alarming and alarmist

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  4. Diary

    OxfordAlfred Bestall: illustrator of Rupert BearAlthough he also worked as a painter and book illustrator, Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) was most famous for his Rupert Bear comic strip in the Daily...

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  5. The Pick - A game of life and death

    Journey through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the DeadThe British Museum, London, until 6 March 2011The British Museum's superb new exhibition includes many astonishing objects, notably the...

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  6. David Malvern, 1946-2010

    An internationally renowned leader in science education has died.David Malvern was born in Crosby, Merseyside on 20 October 1946 and won a scholarship to Merchant Taylors' School before reading...

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  7. University of Oxford - Growth spurt

    An Oxford college has launched a £17 million fundraising campaign for a major expansion that will include the building of two new quadrangles and a bridge link across a city centre street. As part of...

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  8. Pork chop shock

    Our university has expressed "deep shock" at this week's announcement by the Higher Education Funding Council for England that its highly rated degree in Pork Studies will no longer be accredited as...

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  9. The academy's role in A-level 'devaluation' (1 of 2)

    Your leader, "Time for a return to entry duty?" (4 November), rightly calls upon universities to play a part in shaping A-level qualifications. But let us not be tempted to join the clamour of voices...

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  10. The academy's role in A-level 'devaluation' (2 of 2)

    I disagree with the somewhat dismissive approach to the views of teachers and subject associations taken in your feature, "Making the A level work a little harder" (4 November).The A level is part of...

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  11. Elite, against the odds (1 of 3)

    The Browne Report looks likely to leave arts and humanities students with twice the level of fees and some academic departments facing closure ("The shape of things to come", 28 October).Given that "...

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  12. Elite, against the odds (2 of 3)

    Universities need to be able to plan in order to deliver high-quality courses. But student choice is likely to be fickle, with income course by course hard to predict from year to year.How will the...

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  13. Elite, against the odds (3 of 3)

    If a review chaired by a distinguished literary publisher and president of the British Academy had recommended that government funding for undergraduate teaching be entirely concentrated on the...

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  14. Truth to powers

    There is one point in the Policy Exchange report on private providers in higher education that must not go unchallenged ("Private firms keen to take Queen's shilling for student support", 4 November...

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  15. The humanities code (1 of 2)

    Jay Kennedy ends his piece, "My Dan Brown moment" (4 November), by decrying the impact of what he calls "outreach" on the humanities. According to him, such activities "are incompatible with the...

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