The clean hands of denial
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Two cheers for the new
The Contemporary History Handbook
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Nurseries for leaders of integrity
I AM struck by evidence of a sudden realisation by universities that they should be doing something about the great issues of our time. Universities' contribution to development occupied the...
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Antithesis
Here is the news for 1998 January An over-zealous Oxford student on holiday work in the university offices confesses he accidentally shredded the North report soon after its return from the printers...
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And the Beat goes on ...
Shamoon Zamir applauds the opening of a unique collection devoted to the work of poet and scholar Eric Mottram Later this month, King's College, London, will open the Eric Mottram Collection. The...
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Over the limit?
Sociologist Martin Plant has always been controversial - he accepted grants from the drinks industry and paid prostitutes to collect data - now he has left Edinburgh University facing fresh...
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The Master's voice
Professor of art history at Amsterdam University, Ernst van de Wetering, explains to Kam Patel his enduring fascination with Rembrandt, about whom he has just written a book In the autumn of 1885...
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The shape of things to come
Eight leading thinkers ponder how the world will change in eight crucial areas over the next 50 years * MATT RIDLEY on disease Aids, mad-cow disease, the Ebola virus: it sometimes seems as if we live...
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Snow business
Christmas greetings to all - especially at the University of Sussex, where seasonal feebleness set in as long ago as the 17th. Vice chancellor Gordon Conway shut the place at noon because of the snow...
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Christmas fear
Glasgow Caledonian University has had a particularly eventful year, firing its principal, Stan Mason, for gross misconduct, and now awaiting a report from the National Audit Office on possible misuse...
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Fact file
* Of the 126,582 academic staff at United Kingdom institutions: * 9,097 are professors * 20,946 are senior lecturers and researchers * 51,110 are lecturers * 33,562 are researchers * 11,867 are other...
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Dream on
(Photograph) - Dream on: inmates of HMP The Verne rehearse for a A Chance to Dream, their own musical version of Hamlet. The project is being co-cordinated by Andy Baker, a music animator for the...
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Appointments
South West Arts David Brierley, former general manager of the Royal Shakespeare Company, member of several Arts Council committees and its lottery panel and chairman of the stabilisation committee,...
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Seven in race for doctors
AT LEAST seven universities are planning to take medical students to cash in on expected growth. Earlier this month the Medical Work Force Standing Advisory Committee recommended Britain train 1,000...
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Clinical academics lose research funds
CLINICAL academics were this week counting the personal cost of a Pounds 10 million cut to NHS research and development funding. A large number of hospital trusts where research is undertaken lost...