Is the tide turning?
Margarette Lincoln and Nigel Rigby preview Maritime History Week and a brace of conferences that acknowledges the oceans' role in Britain's evolution. We're a maritime nation - we've grown by the sea...
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Black hands in a black trade
In the crews of ships that transported Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas, free black men worked with white men, and occupational and class ties often cut across racial lines, writes Emma...
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If they sailed the oceans, show me the boats
Evidence suggests that man must have travelled by boat as early as 40,000BC, but the oldest known craft dates from just 8000BC. Sean McGrail reports. It is a little-known fact that there were seamen...
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Wanna be like you-oo-oo
Mandy Garner meets primatologist Frans de Waal, who believes human and ape culture is learnt through copying peers. Tea at The Ritz is perhaps the perfect setting to discuss the meaning of culture....
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Latest UK news
Activists occupy NUS HQ Leftwing students have occupied the London headquarters of the National Union of Students in protest at budget cuts. The 30 students, who include members of NUS’s National...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian Doing a lot of homework in the early years of secondary school has little or no impact on grades, according to a report from the National Foundation for Educational Research. Scientists...
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Latest international news
French factions heal rift French student unions have healed a 30-year ideological rift and reunited to form the National Union of Students of France (UNEF). The new union, formed by the pro-Socialist...
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Police kill four students in Papau New Guinea Police in Papua New Guinea fired on students on the main university campus in Port Moresby early yesterday, killing at least four and injuring 24, 11...
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Latest UK news
Colleges get £84 million for IT An £84 million package to help further education colleges develop information infrastructure and increase the uptake of information learning technology was...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph Oxford University is to offer means-tested bursaries of £2,000 to try to attract more students from poor homes. Men in Birmingham will be given a genetically modified virus in an...
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Latest international news
Professor cleared in sect killings inquiry Michel Tabachnik, a conductor and professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, has been acquitted of charges of criminal complicity in the suicide pact...
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From today's UK papers
The Independent The national curriculum should be halved and a "reserve army" of parents and professionals brought into schools to bring back creative education and end the government's testing mania...
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Latest UK news
Oxford lures poor students with grants Oxford University is to encourage students from poorer families to apply to its colleges by offering £2,000 bursaries to undergraduates. The scheme, due to...
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Latest international news
Belarus arrests American on drugs charges Charles Daniel Periello, director of the Minsk office of ACCELS, a division of the American Councils, which sponsors university exchanges and professional...