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African safari
The Physical Geography of Africa
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Spotlight on dark continent
The Peopling of Africa
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Ploughing on for centuries
Agriculture and Environmental Change
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Clean-up after a storm
Sustaining the Soil - Restoration and Rehabilitation of the Desert Environment
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a book that has clocked up great success: "Once on a Wednesday excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball that I loved."...
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South Kent College, Folkestone and South Nottingham College
The further education performance indicators attributed (THES, February 21) to South Kent College, Folkestone, in fact related to South Nottingham College. South Kent saw an 18 per cent increase in...
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Grants
Queen's University, Belfast Research contracts Dr W. Kernohan, Pounds 72,639 from Zimmer Co.UK (continuation of IBIJ audit); Dr R. Mark, Pounds 44,700 from Department of Environment Northern Ireland...
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Honorary degrees
University of Durham DCL: Steven Redgrave, oarsman, sports consultant, Olympic gold medallist. DSc: Terence Burns, permanent secretary at the Treasury, former lecturer in economics at London Business...
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Appointments
Queen's University, Belfast Brian Hogg, professor and provost of the college of engineering at Queen's University, Belfast, has been elected to the board of the Conference of European Schools for...
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Victims of justice
Why, when reported rape is rising, are prosecutions falling? Sue Lees tells Kate Worsley that it is because the childish misogyny of the playground is still acted out in court. Take any bus down the...
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Come in humans, your time is up...
Kevin Warwick believes tomorrow belongs to the machines. How can we, the human race, be so sure that just because we are in a number one position on earth that is how it will always be? At the moment...
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Pundit becomes a prof
Phil Baty talks to Will Hutton, the Observer editor who has recently added an economics professorship to his portfolio. Will Hutton, editor of The Observer and veteran economics correspondent, has...
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The tanks that think
With the smell of cordite still pungent in the air after the byelection battle of Wirral South,The THES begins today a weekly series in the run-up to the general election on those intelligence units...
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Stakeholding: the concept on very few people's lips
Will Hutton's stakeholding society would be one in which everyone had a stake, not just the top 40 per cent. "It's about being nice to people," says Hutton. Firms would be made more accountable to...