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  1. Hanover heads the vets PhD vanguard

    A VETS' college in Northrhine-Westfalia is the first German university to introduce an international PhD that will be more compatible with foreign qualifications. Tieraerztliche Hochschule in Hanover...

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  2. Outlets for creative thinking

    "FREEWAY flyers" sounds romantic. It conjures up open roads, broad horizons, travelling to freedom. But Elaine Showalter is talking about something less appealing (page 14). In the United States only...

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  3. Building bloc for arts and humanities

    THE establishment of the Arts and Humanities Research Board opens a new era in research for a large and diverse body of academic disciplines. For many years scholars have lamented the absence of a...

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  4. Gentlemen's club in need of reform

    IT IS one year since the Dearing committee on the future of higher education reported. In assessing what it achieved it is worth recalling why it was set up. In 1995, the Conservative government...

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  5. More than a whiff of corruption

    I WAS highly relieved by Domenico Pacitti's proof that the Mafia mentality is in the Italian system rather than in the blood ("Bolognese flavoured corruption", THES, July 10). I was sure to have been...

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  6. Fellowships

    Cardiff University Honorary fellowships: Claude Allegre, French minister of education, research and technology; David Cooksey, chair of the university's Challenge Fund Steering Group; Ieuan Evans,...

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  7. First Impressions

    This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a novel by a religious Greek politician that was later turned into a film...

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  8. Was it worth it, Ron?

    One year after Ron Dearing published his report on the future of higher education, Alan Thomson asks him if he accepts the charge that its 1,700 pages have turned out to be a costly white elephant It...

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  9. Guru hailed as a world-wide Weber

    Worldly wise 9. The information age will widen the gap between rich and poor and erode the power of the state, Manuel Castells tells Martin Ince, on the Internet Not many academics would be upset at...

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  10. Paymasters blunt the cutting edge

    Mike Presdee tells Alison Utley how an Australian state government tried to suppress his research Academic freedom has always been under threat from some predator or other, but as universities...

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  11. Students lead the third way

    Campus radicalism never died it just got bored with party politics and found salvation in single issues such as animal welfare and rent levels Are students as radical as they used to be? In May, the...

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  12. Prescott directs drivers to the fee-way

    Is John Prescott on the right track by wanting to charge drivers to bring their cars into our congested cities? Kam Patel talks to academic experts about the first transport white paper in 20 years...

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  13. From persecution to prosecution

    Oxford academics are up in arms over government immigration policy. At their head is philosopher Michael Dummett, who argues that recent asylum seekers, including students fleeing persecution, have...

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