How to ... Help stressed students cope
WHAT Nigel White suggests some techniques and strategies for university teachers faced with getting agitated and stressed students through vital exams WHY Many problem students need not be referred...
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Eye witness
Last week's murder of a key government adviser on labour relations at Rome's La Sapienza University was claimed by the Red Brigades, the most important of the left-wing terrorist organisations active...
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Coke or Pepsi? US universities choose their sponsor
American students about to graduate from secondary school face big choices at this time of year about the university they will attend: public or private, full-time or part-time, two-year or four-year...
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Third of campuses opt out of compulsory student union fees
Controversial legislation has led students in a third of New Zealand's universities and polytechnics to throw out compulsory membership of their student unions. Student union leaders, however, have...
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Caribbean v-c faces struggle for funds
A university jointly run by 14 English-speaking Caribbean countries has appointed to its top position a man who lists choreography as his profession. Recently inaugurated as vice-chancellor of the...
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Professor turns to crime writing
Workmen laying foundations for a school of postgraduate studies at Barcelona's Autonomous University unearth human remains. Meanwhile, Pepita Sanch!s, professor of Catalan cultural anthropology,...
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A force beyond reason
The Roots of Romanticism
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No theory, but lots of character
Heinrich von Kleist
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Calypso cricket or winded Windies?
The Development of West Indian Cricket, Volume One - The Development of West Indian Cricket, Volume Two
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Blackness in a great imagination
The Letters of Charles Dickens Volume Ten - Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a film director with painting in the family: "In April 1915 a Bavarian sniper did me the favour of...
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Lust, tea and sorcery
Ioláni; or, Tahíti as it was
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Buttons off at last stanza
Pushkin's Button
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Sobriety in excess
At Home with the Marquis de Sade
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Writing of home, from a distance
The Politics of Home