Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar tells Mandy Garner how envious theologians recast key Islamic concepts to steal cultural authority and status from venerated scientists and artists. Why did the study of science...
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Rock and roll is now spelt with double z
What is it about Slavoj Žižek that fires the imagination? Harriet Swain investigates the industry that has sprung up around the philosopher. First came the books - more than 50 of them, translated...
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True appreciation is served with a good dollop of source
Students should experience the rare joy of getting their noses stuck into original manuscripts, insists Ronald Schuchard I would guess that 99 per cent of undergraduates in US, UK and European...
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So, what drives Venezuela's Socialist climber?
On Sunday, Hugo Chávez hopes to win a second term as president. But opinion is split among experts over his intentions, says Huw Richards. Venezuela unquestionably comes into the category memorably...
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Public enemy number one
Governments are ill prepared for a global bird flu pandemic and are doing nothing to ensure that the people of the rich world do not abandon those of the poor to die - as some experts fear. Becky...
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Christian unions warned against legal action Court battles would not resolve underlying issues of religious identity on university campuses and would only create division, a report from an...
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'I had to use force to escape the clutches of groping Trinity don' A young policewoman told yesterday how she visited a middle-aged don at his Cambridge University rooms for a gin and tonic, only to...
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Slouch - it's the safest way to sit Your mother probably told you, as her mother told her: sit up straight. Whether at table, in class or at work we have always been told that sitting stiff-backed...
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Oxford dons reject reform plan in blow for vice-chancellor Oxford University reformist vice-chancellor was dealt a serious blow yesterday as a congregation of dons rejected a package of...
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Cancer Research Fellowship
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Distinguished Scholar Awards
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Fellowships for medical research
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Research Fellowship
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Oxford to resume university governance debate Oxford dons are to reassemble today in the 17th-century Sheldonian theatre for the second round of a highly charged debate on how the ancient university...
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Project Grants
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