First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a friendly novel first published in 1929: " There, far below, is the knobbly backbone of England, the...
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Master of the multiverse
Simon Singh talks to Astronomer Royal Martin Rees about promoting British science and the importance of six numbers. Catching up with the Astronomer Royal proved trickier than imagined. Unlike most...
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Young, gifted and on a boat out of Ulster
Protestant unease at Ulster's new Catholic education ministers masks a deeper concern - the flight of Unionists. Anne McHardy reports. David Trimble, the new first minister of Northern Ireland, is...
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The high-flying undergraduates
The Millennium Dome has spawned bitter controversy, grandiose ideas and an unlikely offspring - a BA (hons) in contemporary circus. Anne Sebba reports. When the idea was first mooted for a...
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Rumours of a death that may be true
The scholarly monograph's print run can be fewer than 150. Is its end, hastened by the internet and the RAE, in sight? Harriet Swain reports. Decline, death and crisis are terms that have come to be...
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Rumours of a death that may be true
In the humanities and social sciences, the monograph is the standard means of moving forward. It not only communicates the results of original research, it also presents a body of new knowledge to a...
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Rumours of a death that may be true
If the monograph is dying, then it is for commercial rather than academic reasons. "Monograph" may have dusty connotations - implying, perhaps, a narrow focus on a subject of little interest except...
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Rumours of a death that may be true
The monograph has been in crisis for a generation and is now in meltdown. For publishers, the specialist book has long been an open wound, haemorrhaging capital. A lifetime sale of a serious...
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IT news in brief
The internet will transform relations between patients and health professions, Southampton University research reveals. Michael Hardy of the university's school of nursing and midwifery looked at how...
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Rich pickings follow forced cuts
MONTREAL Canadian universities have received their highest revenues ever, despite two decades of declining government spending. The increase, say the authors of a recent report, has been earned on...
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Breaking the web
A computer program that can quell children's fear of spiders will be revealed at the Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry's European conference at the Commonwealth Institute in London in...
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France warns US: hands off
PARIS French education minister Claude Allegre has criticised the United States for trying to foist its education system on Europe, which he warned could result in the privatisation of the service...
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V-cs' plea for air
MELBOURNE Australia's vice-chancellors want the government to expand the digital spectrum to allow universities to broadcast programmes. The Broadcasting Act does not permit universities to be...
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Lampeter and Newport get merger go-ahead
Plans for a merger between the University of Wales, Lampeter, and the University of Wales College, Newport, have been given the go-ahead by governors at both universities.
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Nottingham Trent gets cultural centre
Nottingham Trent University yesterday launched its cultural policy and planning research unit headed by Colin Mercer, former director of the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies at Griffith...