TV & radio guide - Friday
Truman (9.00am BBC2). Last of three-part biography of the US President. The Civil War: The Arts of Death (10.00 am History Channel). It’s 1862, and part four of Ken Burns’s much-praised epic....
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Higher Channels Christmas / New Year Special
Belatedly marking the fiftieth anniversary of his death, Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened to Britain (Saturday 8.05 C4), is an excellently straightforward introduction to the work of an...
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Laurie Taylor
Roger? Yes, mother. Enjoying the goose? You don't mind that we haven't had turkey this year? Not at all. What are these? Prunes, Roger. Prunes in Armagnac. Don't you like them? Oh yes, very nice....
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Students face 3,000 per cent hike in fees
Malawi's university students face a 3,000 per cent rise in tuition fees from June next year. While they are certain to contest the move, the government is unlikely to yield, although it may...
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Hot stuff is getting the cold shoulder
Students are shunning internet pornography in favour of computer games, music and coursework. The surprise findings come from a survey of network use in student residences at Strathclyde University,...
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Learners find how modern Tate is
One of the oldest education institutions in London has teamed up with the Tate Modern to develop a ground-breaking adult learning course on CD-Rom. Students in the new visual art course will stroll...
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TCS success
Profitable partnerships between companies and universities were honoured at the TCS 2000 awards in London: Concept Systems Ltd in Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University developed a technique for real-...
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Converging futures
The British Interactive Multimedia Association and mobile telecoms company Orange are sponsoring a Multimedia Lecturer Networking Event in Birmingham on January 24. Colin Buckley from the University...
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Flash flood
An initiative to enable student web developers to create more effective and usable sites has been launched by rich media solutions company Macromedia. The company is bringing together leading...
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Film moves
The Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision, the association of the world's major film and television schools, is to fund a new film practice and film teaching project,...
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Captains of study ready to welcome all on board
At the EU summit, student mobility moved from pious hope to practical initiative, says Viviane Reding. Neither the words "lucid" nor "simple" spring to the mind of anyone trying to unravel the...
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Letters: IT liberators(2)
How refreshing to read a criticism of university bureaucracy that mentioned neither the research assessment exercise nor the Quality Assurance Agency. Andrew Fisher Research support Hull University
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Cyborg off his Christmas tree
Kevin Warwick distorts the image of artificial intelligence, say Simon Colton and the committee of the UK's biggest AI society. It often seems as if we cannot win in artificial intelligence. On the...
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Poisonous exercises
A dartboard and a map could do better than the RAE in targeting excellence, says Martin Cohen. The fifth research assessment exercise is just getting under way. The last exercise cost £.3 million and...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES ...Catherine Belsey argued that exam classifications were old-fashioned. Although I can relate to some of Catherine Belsey's article, much of it strikes me as odd. I have...