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Driven to crime
Lecturer Jim Hawes is on the road to fame and fortune with his first novel, A White Merc with Fins. Huw Richards reports. Hawes the novelist Brady wanted a real gun, he insisted on a real gun, the...
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Rights issue on CD-Rom
As TLTP products begin to move into the marketplace, Michael Smith and Nigel Sternberg warn of the need for licences. The work done under the first stage of the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Warty and nigh perfect
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Mersey beats its drum
Peter Toyne is proud of Liverpool John Moores's partnerships in which money talks but academic judgement rules OK. Working in partnership with industry is the life-blood of the new universities -...
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Post A-level entry on way
The university admissions system looks set for a radical overhaul. It is likely to be replaced by a system in which students apply after they know their A-level grades. A unanimous decision that it...
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New Year Honours
Companion of Honour Sir William Richard Doll for services toepidemiology. Knighthoods David Carter, Regius professor of clinical surgery, Edinburgh University. Cyril Chantler, Children Nationwide...
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Good at sport and clever
Sports scholarships should only be awarded to those also able enough to do a degree, argues Huw Richards Perhaps the first task of Roger Bannister's working party on sports scholarships should be to...
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Voyages of self-discovery
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Liverpool keeps it in the family
Arranged marriages often make sound business sense, argues Philip Love. In the popular view of recent history, the universities experienced a rude and long overdue awakening in the early 1980s. One...
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Magic markers
Marking by computer is proving a boon to academic staff. John Davies reports Essential equipment if you are studying subjects such as chemistry or biochemical sciences at Kingston University: a 2B...
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The beauty of beasts
SOCIETY AND ANIMALS: SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF OTHER ANIMALS Edited by Kenneth Shapiro The White Horse press Twice a year, Pounds 32.00 (institutions), Pounds 16.00 (...
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A bellyful for an architect
ENGINEERING, CONSTRUCTION AND ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT Edited by Ronald McCaffer Blackwell Science Quarterly, Pounds 120.00 (institutions), Pounds 55.00 (individuals) ISSN 0969 9988 This new journal...
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The ascendancy of man
Roger Penrose tells Kam Patel why he thinks human beings will always be cleverer than computers and why we need a new physics Most of us at times will come across some aspect of the physical world...
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On a clear day you can see to the multiplex
The citizens of Oxford may soon see new bingo halls, bowling alleys and car parks among their dreaming spires. Lucy Hodges asks whether colleges keen to profit from their land are responsible. Oxford...