A Victorian guide to checking out in style
Those Victorians really knew how to say goodbye, says James Stevens Curl, as he unearths Victorian attitudes to death in the run up to next month's centenary of Queen Victoria's demise. People are...
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Why Tate went to the dogs
With the award of its annual Turner prize, the Tate is back in the firing line, but the gallery is not afraid of a little criticism, as Kate Worsley reports. Imagine picking up one of Tate &...
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Grey areas on the blacklist
The received wisdom is not the whole story, writes Brian Josephson.Robert Park’s book is basically an attack on dubious science, which he calls “voodoo science”. Categories discussed include: claimed...
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Latest UK news
Students anxious over fee plans Students at Britain’s leading universities are to meet vice-chancellors today to press the case against higher tuition fees. Hamish Common, president of...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Colin Lucas, vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, writes that Oxford has made decision-making clearer and more efficient, has developed academic partnerships and is a pioneer...
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Latest international news
Commonwealth plans to simplify assessments An initiative to simplify qualification and assessment frameworks across the Commonwealth’s 54 member states is being discussed by officials and...
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Non-Clinical Research Fellowship
Deadline: 29/12/2000
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TV & radio guide - Thursday
Routes of English (9.00 am R4). The dialect of Derry/Londonderry. Crossing Continents (11.00 am R4). Bangladesh’s eunuchs The Material World (4.30 R4). Food scientists Andy Taylor and Don Mottram on...
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Higher education appointments
City University, London Iqbal Owadally , formerly a PhD student, has been appointed lecturer in actuarial science; Jaap Spreeuw has qualified as actuary with the Dutch Actuarial Society. Laura...
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Latest international news
Commonwealth scholarships to increase Commonwealth education ministers are to discuss increasing the number of students on the organisation’s mobility scholarship scheme by 50 per cent by 2003. A...
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Latest UK news
Floud wins CVCP leadership Roderick Floud, vice-chancellor of London Guildhall University, has won the contest to become the next president of the newly relaunched Committee of Vice-Chancellors and...
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Fiona Harvey looks at how the power of silicon chips has accelerated advances in biology from genetics to the workings of human organs. Mark Turner writes that a host of African crops...
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THES readers' tributes to Sir Malcolm Bradbury
If there is one lesson for which I am most abidingly grateful to Malcolm Bradbury, who taught me in the early 1970s, it was the possibility of taking myself seriously as a writer. In all of my...
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Letter: A literary legacy
Sir Malcolm Bradbury's generosity and support for the literary arts will long be remembered. He opened his home and his heart to young writers and showed how universities can be places where...
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TV & radio guide - Wednesday
Turning the Tide (11.00 am R4). Wind turbines versus habitat conservation in Cambridgeshire. Superhuman Debate (3.00, 6.00, 9.00 and 12 midnight BBC Knowledge). Robert Winston and fellow scientists...