Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Channel 4's Deaf Century series reaches the 1940s and 1950s. Interviewees include John Harmsworth, the first deaf...
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Web wordsmith
Brooklyn-based cyber-theorist Alan Sondheim is taking over as virtual writer-in-residence at Nottingham Trent University's trAce writing community. Sondheim's books include Disorders of the Real and...
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Platform on a pedestal
It costs $8 million a year, but Lord Dearing's favourite example of online course delivery is going strong, John MacColl reports It is now four years since the newly appointed dean of Harvard...
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An elite sector key to meeting Labour's aims
At the end of Labour's svelte presidential convention, higher education finds itself in an ambiguous position. Universities, and particularly those that regularly top league tables, are central...
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Societies for the future
Learned societies that unite enthusiasts for subjects as diverse as botany and politics fear for the future (pages 8-9). Many are 19th-century foundations whose financial mainstay has been journal...
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Provide every institution the means to contribute
Universities must show they benefit all of society. Those in poor countries need our support to do so, says Paul Davenport In the 1960s and 1970s, as the Commonwealth's newly independent countries...
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Why I...believe Labour should raise taxes to help Britain's poorest children
Jonathan Bradshaw, professor of social policy at the University of York, is researching the outcomes of child poverty for the Economic and Social Research Council. After a disappointing start, the...
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Fag ends of freedom
A third of UK university campuses ban smoking. Martin Ball attacks the anti-smoking Hitlers Imagine a world where one in three of the population is vilified for a lifestyle, forced to skulk in...
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Telecoms infrastructure takes huge toll on birds
Millions of migrating birds are dying every year in collisions with communications towers and buildings. Experts discussed the possible extent of this annual mass killing - which has worsened in...
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Final harvest at Long Ashton
Why might a research station that has won annual grants of Pounds 5m be closed? Natasha Loder reports Earlier this summer a quiet catastrophe unfolded in the village of Long Ashton, on the outskirts...
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Metal detectorists join forces with archaeologists to reconstruct early life in UK
A government initiative to improve relations between treasure seekers and researchers has been running for two years. Now, writes Steve Farrar, this alliance is starting to rewrite history The Danes...
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We do not have lift- off
Prestigious Nasa space missions, some involving British scientists, are in jeopardy as United States politicians row over their public- spending budget. The extent of the proposed cutbacks, which...
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Brawn needed to partner brains
United Kingdom scientists have drawn up lists of new technologies they predict will be needed to push back the frontiers of knowledge in the next few decades, writes Steve Farrar. In an initiative...
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Coventry students go online
Students arriving at Coventry University this week were taking part in the biggest experiment in electronic learning in higher education when they were offered free access to an interactive web site...
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Nigeria pays $100,000 for chair
An international appeal to establish a chair in Commonwealth studies at London University has opened with a pledge from the new Nigerian government. Nigeria's council of ministers has agreed to...