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Swan songs in each tongue
Language Death
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The true character of writing
Alpha Beta - Chinese - Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing
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A single McLuhan but twice the Blairs
Good to Talk? - The Language Imperative
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Lives dedicated to learning language
How the Brain Evolved Language
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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 novel about Africa with Conrad as its predecessor: " The World is what it is; men who are nothing...
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Cracks in the foundations
By colluding with the City in replacing an East End market with office blocks, London Guildhall University risks destroying a community, argues William Taylor. After the talk, the tea, the custard...
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Cryptography, qubits and the art of being in two places at once
From Whitehall to the White House, a quantum computer could crack any code. Justin Mullins talks to scientists in the race to build a 'supercomputer' Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/And sorry I...
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College or a sex life? The choice is yours...
When Lorna Sage went to Durham University, she scored two firsts. One took three years of study and came with honours - the other she achieved when, as a wife and mother, she was allowed to enrol on...
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A detective who retraced steps on the road to hell
Policeman-turned-Phd-student Robin O'Neil's research took him to Belzec, where in 1942, 700,000 Jews died at the hands of another ex-policeman. Steve Farrar reports. Robin O'Neil has seen more than...
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Overhaul decreed for a wasteful system
Consultants say Pounds 250 million accountability regime is 'poor value for money' The accountability regime is to be completely overhauled after a report published this week found "the current...
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Choose in haste, drop out in haste
Why are some universities more successful at hanging on to students than others? Alison Goddard reports. The coming weeks are crucial for potential students. The scramble for places during clearing...
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Reports aid case for more money
The accountability review - which shows that the costs of administering any extra funding can be disproportionate to the extra money awarded - is the first of three evaluations of the sector to...
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Higher Education Funding Council
A series of burdens on universities and colleges have been generated by weaknesses in the way the funding council fulfils its various roles, the report says. The lack of a direct link between funding...
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Research assessment exercise
The RAE encourages "inappropriate behaviour" - such as tactically switching research staff between departments to optimise RAE scores and producing more but shorter articles for publication, rather...