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John Davies looks for useful TV and radio programmes (all times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Let us consider two approaches to (visual) art on Sunday. First, on Channel 5, art historian Tim...
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Time to speak up against the doom merchants
Academics have a duty to help dispel the bunkum in scaremongering debates, says Steve Farrar Here is a vision of the future. Dark skies drizzle filthy rain on polluted cities. In the overcrowded...
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No sex please, we're peckish
Should the subject of food be served with an academic garnish, or is it best eaten with a dollop ofamateur scholarship? Anne Sebba reports on the emergence of a discipline Food studies, a popular...
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Beware falling rocks
Is Earth locked into an extinction cycle? Are we really under threat from a meteorite or asteroid shower? David Raup discusses the work that suggests such events might happen at regular intervals As...
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For the record
George Bain, vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast, has condemned the 11-plus selection system for breeding "social apartheid". Professor Bain, speaking at a school prize-giving, said he...
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Uni boss's pay tops Pounds 250,000
Britain's highest paid academic has broken through the Pounds 250,000 barrier, The THES can reveal. John Quelch, dean of the London Business School, earned Pounds 252,000 from public funds in the...
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For the record
Dundee University drugs research has been given a Pounds 1.3 million boost. Researchers, backed by the Medical Research Council, have been working with a consortium of major companies to create new...
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For the record
A new archive and research unit on German-Jewish communities was opened at the University of Sussex yesterday, on the day Germany held its official Holocaust Memorial Day. The centre for German-...
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For the record
Astronomers have resumed their exploration of the universe with the Hubble Space Telescope. Images of remote galaxies and dying stars have been issued for the first time since the Earth-orbiting eye...
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Vice-chancellor and top academic pay 1998-99
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For the record
* One of the United Kingdom's most respected scientists has been suspended from his post at Oxford University and has temporarily stepped down as a governor of the Wellcome Trust after complaints...
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For the record
Students occupied the School of African and Oriental Studies in London this week demanding that those unwilling or unable to pay tuition fees not be penalised. The college was closed after students...
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For the record
The number of computing and information science students at Scottish higher education institutions has risen by 9 per cent this year compared with 1998-99. This is the biggest rise in any subject...
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For the record
John Williams (above) has applied for early retirement as principal of North East Wales Institute. The institute faces an investigation into allegations of mismanagement, but Professor Williams says...
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For the record
Glasgow Caledonian University has reached a private settlement with former vice-principal John Phillips, fired for gross misconduct in July. Professor Phillips was vice-principal under former...