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Daily TV & radio - Tuesday
The Secrets of Maps (9.30 am). The Peters Projection, the map created by Arno Peters in 1973 to give a fairer view of the world. Long, Long Ago (3.30 R4). "How Evil Came Into the World" – a Zulu folk...
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Higher education awards and prizes
Academy of Learning Societies for the Social Sciences Sara Arber , Martin Bulmer , Greville Corbett and Nigel Gilbert , professors at the University of Surrey have been elected to the Academy....
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Higher education appointments
University of Warwick Lectureships: Richard Baines (former senior research associate at the University of Cambridge) the department of biological sciences. Baibel Finkenstadt , department of...
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Latest international news
Education minister quits to take on Italian government Italian premier Giuliano Amato has taken over the universities ministry following the resignation of its minister Ortensio Zecchino, who is to...
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Latest UK news
£15 million announced for Scots technology programmes Wendy Alexander, Scotland’s minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has announced £15 million for information and communications...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Douglas Breeden has been named dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, North Carolina. THE GUARDIAN University of Surrey biologist Johnjoe McFadden argues that unless...
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Daily TV & radio - Monday
Mapping the Town (11.00 am R4). Julian ( Meet the Ancestors ) Richards starts a new "hidden history" beginning with Cardiff. Afternoon Play – Victorian Marriage Beds (2.15 R4). About Strindberg and...
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Weekend TV & radio
SATURDAY February 3 » Breaking the Seal : Tax Records (9.30 am BBC2). Episode two of Open University archive series, first shown last year. Soaps on the Couch (10.30 am R4). How do soap operas...
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Vital research put at risk
Researchers fear that a knee-jerk reaction to the Alder Hey body parts scandal could hit vital medical research and teaching. In the wake of the Redfern report, medical schools insist procedures to...
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Latest UK news
MPs call for higher repayment threshold MPs on the cross-party education select committee have told higher education minister Baroness Blackstone that the government should ...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES John Wood, dean of engineering at Nottingham University, has been appointed chief executive of the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils. Researchers in Canada and the United...
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Why I take television series seriously as subjects for academic study
One of the most interesting things for me as a film historian is the development of what is called short-form television - series that have half-hour and hour-long episodes. In my lectures, I look...
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Business won't boom in ghetto
A free-standing research council will stifle management studies, argues Anthony Hopwood. From time to time, there is pressure to create an independent Research Council for Management Research. The...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES: Gill Jackson argued that Cambridge's equality audit had valuable lessons for other universities. Reading Gill Jackson's article as a first-year historian, there seems to be a...