Nudity latest
The University of Southampton is trying to keep up appearances. Not to be outdone by the Alley Catz of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, whose drunken streaking across the quad made lurid headlines...
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It could be u-niversity
Ian Lovecy, senior strategy adviser at the University of Wales, Bangor, has hit on a novel way of selling higher education to people with no experience of it. Use the language of the lottery, he...
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Spaces unfulfilled
Long before chancellor Gordon Brown started to flirt with taxing car-parking spaces at work, Tim O'Shea, master of Birkbeck College in central London, solved the parking problem more radically. He...
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Peep show in principle
Today sees the opening of an exhibition at Leeds Metropolitan University gallery titled "Landscape trauma in the age of scopophilia". It is far from being devoted to singing the praises of college...
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Straw poll
William Straw, son of foreign secretary Jack Straw, is hoping to follow in his father's footsteps as a student activist. He is standing as an independent candidate for election next week as president...
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A fundamental fallacy
Characterising relations between the Middle East and the West as a clash of civilisations plays into the hands of fundamentalists, argues Thomas Meyer. Since the September 11 attacks on the United...
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Mullahs and kulaks - he would bin them all
Forty years ago E. H. Carr published What is History . Richard J. Evans considers the influence this former journalist had on historical thought and how he might view history in the making today This...
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Celibates in ivory tower find stardom
'Who are academics and what is their role?' Palgrave prize-winner Mike Finn looks at the once 'remote and ineffectual don' and finds that, although academia has not lost its idealism, communicating...
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Care in a country under siege
In a country that cannot afford drug therapies for HIV-Aids, a £500-a-year hospice scheme is helping South African families prepare for death. Karen MacGregor reports. It is as bad as it gets. Three...
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Hearing problems, seeing solutions
Social Work and Social Problems - Understanding Social Work - Constructive Social Work
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Searching for causes and codes of complexity that allow squirrels to fly to the 'adjacent possible'
Cosmic Evolution - Investigations
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In thrall to the Minotaur's art
Picasso's dazzling capacity for reinvention consumed many in its creative fire - not least the muses who ignited it. Henry Meyric Hughes writes. Pablo Picasso dominated the international artistic...
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There's no place for home
Keeping the Faith
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Trust me, I'm a philanthropist
Citizen Brands
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the autobiographyof an angry older man: "May 8th is the one unforgettable feast in my calendar..." The...