Worries over Scots engineering applicants
Scottish higher education institutions are facing a "worrying" downward trend in the quality of applications for engineering degree courses, according to the Committee of Scottish Higher Education...
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Every week, THESIS , The THES internet service, offers job advertisements and a summary of the news, features, reviews and other articles in the newspaper. Job advertisements are updated on the...
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Decline in researching dons
More than two thirds of university academics are required to teach. Figures released last week by Parliament show the percentage of university academics who engage purely in research was 34.4 per...
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Plots all over the landscape
Conspiracy - Hystories - Selling Fear - Political Paranoia - Aliens in America
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19th-century cyberspace
The Victorian Internet
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And now for my next mutation ...
Form and Transformation
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Clash of the protons
The Quark Machines
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Morality for the Me generation
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Ethics
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No, we won't go quietly
The Penguin Book of 20th-Century Protest
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Searching dark recesses
No Go the Bogeyman
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The last of the Russian prophets
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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Time-lapse photography
Photography, An Independent Art
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1819 - and all that
England in 1819
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An Almighty challenge
Christopher Frayling and his students at the Royal College of Art wanted the Spirit Zone of the Millennium Dome to re-enchant the world. But then religion intruded. Kam Patel reports If the...
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Tales from the little folk provide hangover cure
Children's literature is a goldmine for academic research. But first disguise it as folklore, advises James Riordan Oxford don C. S. Lewis expressed concern about the "silly convention" that caused...