In need of a Lara luck
Good luck to the University of Kent's cricket club in its match next month against a local pub team, the Lashings. The Lashings has just signed West Indian batting legend Brian Lara, who will make...
Good luck to the University of Kent's cricket club in its match next month against a local pub team, the Lashings. The Lashings has just signed West Indian batting legend Brian Lara, who will make...
David Bleiman , assistant general secretary of the Association of University Teachers, has been appointed president of the Scottish Trades Union Congress . Van Gore , professor of quality management...
Alfred Cerezo , of the University of Oxford, has received the Beilby medal and prize, awarded jointly by the Institute of Materials, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical...
Week one I blame it all on Dave Harvey. Having agreed to give up television for Lent, it is already beginning to hurt. Dave, the producer of Radio 4's The Message , has chosen me as an ideal person...
Gloria Laycock, who gave her inaugural speech as director of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science yesterday, has found herself the focus of much interest this week as the Dando trial returned to...
Trieste A court ruled this week that 21 foreign-language lecturers at the University of Verona should have their status as lettori restored after they contested their downgrading to technical staff...
The armed takeover of Russia's last independent national television channel, following a boardroom coup, has provoked a storm of criticism the world over. The forced imposition of new management at...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work originally entitled Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World : "My father had a small...
Persia and the West

Howard Glennerster finds working families are losing out in the US. Those familiar with Theda Scokpol's early writing will remember her as a brilliant social historian of America's early welfare...
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