First Impressions
This week's First Impressions was written by a supercivilised man: "I am standing on the Pont des Arts in Paris." Entries to First Impressions, The THES, Admiral House, 66-68 East Smithfield, London...
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The tanks that think
Simon Midgley turns the spotlight on the Institute for Public Policy Research The Institute for Public Policy Research was set up in 1988 as a left-of centre alternative to the free market think...
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Now you see it, now you don't
You will never get students - or staff - always to lock their doors. Frank Woods looks at other ways to keep intruders out and valuables safe. A couple of weeks ago one university security officer...
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Campus Services
(Photograph) - The financial squeeze on universities in recent years is set to continue. And it is not just academic provision that is undergoing a big transformation. As this issue of Campus...
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The virtual past master
Historians inevitably look at what was, but Niall Ferguson also asks what if ... Sian Griffiths talks to him Niall Ferguson's London flat is like an Oxford undergraduate's set of rooms. True, it is...
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Reigning cats and dogs
People lavish affection and money on pets and some even prefer them to humans. John Archer reveals the evolutionary reasons P D. James's novel The Children of Men takes the apparent decline in sperm...
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The haves and have nots
The general election campaign is unlikely to include discussion of poverty or the gap between rich and poor. Tony Atkinson wonders why Inequality is a major election issue. Even if Labour is cautious...
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The vivisection void
Media reports on live animal experiments are not explicit enough to promote a debate about the moral issues, argues Jacky Turner Activists for animal welfare often take part in exchanges such as...
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Bred in the bone
Harriet Swain hears why, despite the family rows, Louise Leakey is determined to carry on the palaeontological work of her parents After a childhood spent helping to dig up her forebears, Louise...
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Women on the edge of a breakthrough
Jane Ussher argues that there are still important female issues that lack proper recognition in psychology In 1985 a group of women psychologists, despairing at the state of British psychol-ogy,...
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Zeal of the spider woman
Former Chinese Red Guard Rae Yang's memoir is a tale of idealism, love and lies under Mao. Tim Cornwell reports The Cultural Revolution, insists Chinese scholar Rae Yang, was not a time when "all of...
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Mr Fixit of campus fugit
Greenwich University has been in training for years for higher education's heritage coup of the century - its occupation of Sir Christopher Wren's Royal Naval College. With its collection of listed...
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The future? A pay-your-own-way free-for-all
Imagine tomorrow's world. Then think again. Fari Aklaghi looks at how scenario planning can help you be more realistic. That higher education faces considerable challenges in the near future is...
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Snuggle up, I'm feeling optimistic
The federation formed by four Manchester business schools three years ago is soon to be embodied in a £7-million building built to house one of the partners. The facility is in the city centre at the...
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PFI: modern estate management's Man Friday
Remember that with PFI you are buying a service, not a building, advises Mike Sherrington. As a relative latecomer to private finance initiative contracts, higher education estate management has been...