The man with sights on gangland targets
As UK gun crime escalates, Adam James talks to policy adviser Nick Tilley The murder of two teenage girls in a hail of bullets during a new year's eve party in Birmingham provoked a clamour of...
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Quiet man hopes for revolution of the mind
Tony Holland, Cambridge's new chair of learning disability, came into the subject by chance. He talks to Terry Philpot In October 2000, health minister John Hutton hailed the white paper on learning...
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'Bullying destroyed my self worth'
University support staff are complaining of a huge rise in cases of bullying. Is a hierarchical environment to blame? Harriet Swain reports Jane (not her real name) can no longer face going into the...
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Get out your module maps, it's time for a light-touch look at those underlying concepts and learning outcomes
The audit culture in universities diverts academics from their calling - researching and teaching - and makes them into paper-shuffling, jargon-spouting bureaucrats, says Todd Landman In March 2001,...
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Your task: identify the root of the falling interest
The inquiry into how to raise the popularity of maths, lift students' skills and end the dearth of teachers is not a theoretical exercise. Its chair tells Martin Ince that he expects to see his...
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Pankhursts and provocations
Emmeline Pankhurst - The Pankhursts - Emmeline Pankhurst
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Genetics with a conscience
Making Genes, Making Waves
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist whose work has been frequently filmed: "I met my Aunt Augusta for the first time in more...
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Side by side but not in step
Serbia - Unholy Alliance
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Tribal hostilities eclipse
Before Taliban - The Pathan Unarmed
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Imperial rulers in freedom's name
American Empire
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The least worst of political evils
Rich Democracies - Democratization
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History in the remaking
The Manchurian Myth - Japanese Political History since the Meiji Renovation 1868-2000
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Insightful on Islam, but still no answer to September 11
What Went Wrong?
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Size does not matter for the arts 1
The government wrongly equates research excellence with institutional concentration in its Future of Higher Education white paper ( THES , January 24). In doing so, it risks imposing a model drawn...