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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a philosopher sometimes mistaken for a famous playwright: "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and...
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No marginal subjects
David Starkey scorns histories of the working-class.He prefers 'big and important' topics such as Elizabeth I, who, it seems, was abused as a child. Harriet Swain meets the 'rudest man in Britain'....
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Two takes on the left
Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. Future of Democracy: cancelled" was the...
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I just don't have time
Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. I once went to visit a physicist in his...
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Exploring the visual everywhere
Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. Art history, says Carol Richardson of...
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A reason to cry wolf
As wolf populations multiply, so do attacks on people and livestock. Steve Farrar reports on a clash between academics and 'wolf huggers' over how to respond. James Howell caught a fleeting glimpse...
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Higher channels
John Davies selects from the broadcasting menu (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week A lot gets packed into the 90 minutes of The Holocaust on Trial (Saturday 7.15 C4). Not only does it...
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Survival was a numbers game
Everyone has the genetic ability to do maths, claims Keith Devlin. So why don't most of us use it? How's your maths? Most people assume that it takes a special kind of brain to be able to do...
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Pay gap widens for US faculty
American university faculty enjoyed salary raises above inflation this year for the sixth time in the past seven years, but their pay continues to fall behind that of other highly educated...
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Fees leave Scandanavians cold
Senior civil servants from all of Scandinavia's ministries of higher education are agreed that the time is not ripe for the introduction of university tuition fees in the region. Gathered in Iceland...
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Students target private tuition
Italy's main student union has launched a national campaign against advertising by Italy's largest private tuition firm, which uses Alex Del Piero, star player of Juventus football club, and...
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Here's looking at you, squid
(Photograph) - Research students and scientists were on hand to explain the mysteries of the ocean and the creatures that inhabit it at an exhibition at Southampton University's Oceanography Centre....
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Five projects share Pounds 462,000
Tim Greenhalgh on the BT Higher Education Awards, co-sponsored by THES. Two events on the same day last week at British Telecom's London headquarters underlined the breathless pace of cultural change...