French no longer enough in France
Jack Lang, France's new minister of education, has long-term plans for all students to graduate with a good command of two foreign languages. As a first step he is giving priority to the introduction...
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Dissident Serb academics seek British partnership
Dissident Serbian academics are exploring the possibility of collaboration with universities in the UK. Representatives from the Belgrade-based Alternative Academic Education Network have been in...
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Manna from the English heaven
The Cambridge History of the English Language, Volume 4 1776-1997
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Popular science - the new God by reason of age
Time of Our Lives
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No hurrays for Bollywood
Who Do We Think We Are?
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A leftwards look at the excluded many
Social Exclusion
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Veritable origins or specious?
Defenders of the Truth
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No sight of a new colour-blind century
Oxford Readers
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Making numbers add up to lie detection
Understanding Social Statistics
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Desperately seeking asylum
Refugees, Citizenship and Social policy in Europe
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The script we all have to read
Constructing Death
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a philosopher sometimes mistaken for a famous playwright: "'What is truth?' said jesting Pilate, and...
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No marginal subjects
David Starkey scorns histories of the working-class.He prefers 'big and important' topics such as Elizabeth I, who, it seems, was abused as a child. Harriet Swain meets the 'rudest man in Britain'....
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Two takes on the left
Have you missed a conference call? Don't worry, here are the highlights of the recent get-togethers of sociologists, art historians and political scientists. Future of Democracy: cancelled" was the...