Double vision
Daphne Todd won the Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture at the Royal Society of Painters' annual exhibition with her painting of Marilyn Strathern, mistress of Girton College, Cambridge. The exhibition is...
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Latest international news
Sniper fire closes Chechen university Classes at the University of Grozny, in the Chechen capital, have been suspended after three Russian servicemen came under fire from unknown gunmen as they left...
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Higher education awards
University of Southampton David Barker , director of the MRC environmental epidemiology unit, has been awarded the Prince Mahodol Award 2000 for outstanding and exemplary contributions to the...
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Latest UK news
Tory manifesto promises university autonomy One-off cash endowments for British universities would free them from political interference and uncertainty over funding, the Conservative election...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Research pressure groups, such as Save British Science, are determined that science should not be left on the sidelines during the general election campaigns. Riken, a publicly funded...
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Academics abandon Tories
Conservative Party support on campus has slumped for the third election in a row, according to an ICM poll for The THES . Only 5 per cent of the 501 academics polled said they intended to vote...
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Higher education: the audit
Expansion Home undergraduates (first degree and other undergraduate) numbers full and part time in HE and FE 1996-1997 1,439,569 1997-1998 1,466,419 1998-1999 1,479,056 1999-2000 1,488,046 2000-2001...
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Does Labour come up smelling of roses
New Labour's mantra at the last election was that things could only get better. Certainly, higher education has changed significantly since Tony Blair swept to power, but is the sector, and the staff...
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Growth is blamed for fall in standards
More than half of academics think higher education expansion should be halted because academic standards are suffering. An ICM poll of 501 lecturers, senior lecturers, readers, professors and other...
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ICM poll: academics' voting intentions
Voting intentions 2001 1997 1992 Labour 42% 51% 50% Conservative 5% 8% 15% Liberal Democrat 15% 17% 18% Scottish National Party 1% 2% 2% Plaid Cymru not available 1% 0.2% Green Party 1% 0...
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Climate of death in colonial politics
Brian Fagan says lessons should be learnt from 19th-century disasters. Global warming caused by humans, El Niños, monsoon failures and unprecedented rainfall in Europe - we live in environmentally...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who was also a tough guy: "Robert Cohn was once a middleweight boxing champion of Princeton...
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Creating a tribe of ancestral savages
Darkness in El Dorado
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Epiphany that unlocked a genius
Where the Dreams Cross
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Diverse societies join in principle
Legal Traditions of the World