Art can be priceless
A council for the arts and humanities may be obliged to make damaging 'value' demands, write Geoffrey Channon and Kate Fullbrook Scholars and researchers in the arts have looked enviously for decades...
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Why I believe we need to talk to extremists
Popular support for the "war on terror" being led by the US and Britain is beginning to show signs of fraying. After ten months, people are catching on to the fact that traditional means of dealing...
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Open up about scientific bias
Learned societies giving 'independent' advice have to acknowledge their prejudices, says Geoffrey Hammond The House of Commons science and technology committee's inquiry into the government-funded...
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Nocturnal Austrians turn to food and drink to make ends meet
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. One of the most bitterly contested "...
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Job scene sways choice
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. Officially, business degree student...
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Parents pay, but it is not enough
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. One in ten French students has a full-...
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Hi-tech, high-cost days kill social life
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. The Danish state education grant system...
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Place to work, study, sleep
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. With tuition fees rising faster than...
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Dating game is nice earner
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. Nigeria's 500,000 students are struggling...
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Cut-price student days with mamma and papa
The high cost of university life throughout the world is pushing more students into term-time jobs. The THES reports on some enterprising ways to raise cash. For Italy's students, the most...
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Entrance exam abolition splits Conakry staff
The National University of Guinea in Conakry has abolished its entrance exam, a move that has divided staff. Instead, successful baccalaureate candidates can apply directly for admission. Lecturers...
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Enforced corp duty triggers youth fury
Resistance is growing among young Zimbabweans to a ruling compelling them to join a youth militia widely accused of murder, torture and rape before they are allowed into higher education or...
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Rome
Princeton University's art gallery has agreed to return a Roman sculpture, purchased in 1985, after being contacted by the Italian police. The sculpture - the head of a bearded man with the...
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Kinshasa
Several hundred students and lecturers from the universities of Koma and Kishangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo have fled intense fighting among rival rebel factions. Most have been...
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Mexico City
Chilean poet Gonzalo Rojas is to head a university dedicated to poetry and thought that will open in November in Mexico City. The Universidad de la Poes!a y el Pensamiento is the brainchild of Cuban-...