A pilgrim's progess report
Novelist and academic David Lodge is best known for his satires of life in universities on both sides of the Atlantic. With a distinguished career at Birmingham University behind him, he is also one...
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Professors with sex on the brain
A Pilgrim's progress report Small World opens on the fictional Rummidge campus, hosting the dreary University Teachers of English Language and Literature conference. Persse McGarrigle, having just...
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Sex becomes a metaphor for life
A Pilgrim's progress report In David Lodge's Nice Work, Robyn Penrose, Cambridge graduate, has finally secured a poorly paid three-year lectureship in English literature at the University of Rummidge...
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Science's storyteller
He is a vocal atheist with a combative if not militant image, but few scientists have a larger audience than Richard Dawkins. He talks to Tony Durham. He does not pretend to be Charles Darwin, and he...
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Some sensory perception
Nancy Rothwell, the Royal Institution Christmas lecturer, tells Alison Goddard how her dad inspired her. The Christmas she was eight, Nancy Rothwell got more presents than ever before. Three months...
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The bottom line on perfect presents
Enterprising academics are turning specialisms and hobbies into Christmas gifts. Julia Hinde samples fruity perfumes and chessmen. Why did medieval ale-testers wear leather trousers, and which...
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Sex scandal has electoral impact
Conakry Claims that academics have sexually harassed students at Guinea's Universite Nationale have become a prominent issue in the run-up to the country's presidential elections next Monday. Thirty...
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Real crisis prompts strike two
Rio de Janeiro Brazil's university lecturers are threatening to resume their strike action - suspended during October's election campaign - in the new year, but are working extra hours unpaid to make...
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Students in exam time loop
Melbourne Sitting among his 500 peers at the University of Melbourne, the computing engineering student gazed at the final examination paper in horror. "Oh God!" he muttered. "This is just like the...
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Hong Kong
Two promising Chinese students will receive scholarships from the Hong Kong-based Hang Seng Bank to study at Ivy League universities in the United States this year. The scholarships cover the full...
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Copenhagen
Denmark is to open a Holocaust and genocide information and research centre next year. The centre will counter neo-Nazi claims that the Holocaust never occurred. The government plans to give DKr3...
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Victoria, BC
A man, who accepted his fifth and sixth university degrees at a recent convocation ceremony at the University of Victoria, is not only halfway towards completing a seventh in philosophy but is...
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Eye witness
Post-apartheid South Africa continues to face serious economic and social problems as it rebuilds its divided society. The gap between expectations among the non-white communities and the reality of...
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How to ... Make the most of study abroad
WHAT: The UK has sent students abroad for decades and will need to send more if it hopes to match the numbers of EU students coming here. Jim Coleman reports. WHY: A stint abroad is a plus on a...
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Star Turn
Julia Hinde experiences the cool and calming delivery of a medical school lecture on the autonomic nervous system. There is no doubting that William Large's first-year lectures on the autonomic...