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Nigeria confronts university decay Nigeria’s federal government has set up a committee on university autonomy and related matters to tackle the decay in the country's universities.  ...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times Researchers at University College London surveyed 600 employees of the Property Services Agency, which was privatised in the mid-1990s, and found that privatisation is bad for your...
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Architect of a stable world
Forrest Capie looks at the last years of Keynes's remarkable life. This is the third and final volume of what has generally come to be regarded as a masterpiece in biography. It is 30 years since...
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Dummy speaks your thoughts
Dumbstruck
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an account of a journey through Europe in the 1930s: "'A splendid afternoon to set out,' said one of...
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More stuff to fuel a myth of spinsters
The Brontë Myth
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Timely attack on nonsense
Market Killing
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Saying adiós to Inglaterra
The Delicious History of the Holiday - The British Seaside - The British on the Costa del Sol - Sunset Lives
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Goths, giros and Geordie rock bands
Popular Music and Youth Culture - Inside Subculture - Sounding Out the City
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How India writes national roles into TV shows
Screening Culture, Viewing Politics
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Enjoy your sushi at Christ's tomb
The Orient Strikes Back
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The father of the family album
The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot - Specimens and Marvels
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Laurie Taylor
Hard-up academics are being lured from the lecture hall to the classroom to help schools cope with teacher shortages - THES , March 9. Good morning, class 3b. My name is Lapping. I am your new...
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Leader: Valuable lessons to be learnt from looking up
Anyone with the cinema habit knows that outer space is jammed with objects that threaten to collide with the Earth and extinguish human life. But whether it is worth doing anything about the threat...
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Leader: Education must reflect changes in rural workforce
Much has changed in the British countryside in recent years. The foot-and-mouth epidemic will mean more and faster reforms. In turn, this will probably mean a smaller and more heavily educated...