When spies foxed and rebels bungled
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an old Etonian who was no relation to Labour's Tony: "We must add to our heritage or lose it, we must grow greater or grow less, we must go forward or backward. I...
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Speaking Volumes: A Room of One's Own
Marion Shaw on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own . I first read this book in the mid-1960s, soon after I graduated and nearly 40 years after it was first published. I cannot remember who first of...
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Civil disorder as critics arrive
Impolite Learning
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Old facts spiced with a dash of ideology
A New Philosophy of History - An Intelligent Person's Guide to History - On "What is History"? From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White - Beyond the Great Tory
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The proselytes of Prussia
The Politics of Conversion
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City of landfall and landfill
BOMBAY: THE CITIES WITHIN By Sharada Dwivedi and Rahul Mehrotra India Book House Pvt Mahalaxmi Chambers, 5th Floor, 22 Bhulabhai Desai Road, Bombay 400 026 335pp, Pounds 40.00 (p+p extra) ISBN 81...
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The University of Abertay Dundee is setting up an alumni association. It has written to 14,000 former students inviting them to join. Membership will be free to anyone with a qualification from UAD...
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A PFI marriage of convenience
Are strategic partnerships between the public and private sectors of benefit to higher education or not worth the risk, asks Fari Akhlaghi There appears to be a growing consensus among commentators...
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The new Greenwich village
John McWilliam and Paul Watson describe how PFI is helping to build student bedrooms to order. In seven months time around 650 students from the University of Greenwich will occupy new purpose-built...
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The quick modular fix
Rental income makes student housing an ideal candidate for PFI. Stephen Hoare looks at two case studies. The phenomenal rise in student numbers in higher education means Britain's universities are...
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To fit out or fit in
With space at a premium, Paul Roebuck, Peter Lyon and Frank Woods predict another university league table. It has yet to dawn on many universities and colleges of higher education that space (area to...
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Four-star chain reaction
Stephen Hoare on the United States's experience of contracting in and contracting out. Students of the University of Tampa in Florida have every reason to be contented. They eat first-class meals...
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Clean sweep, new broom
Outsourcing has become a managers' buzz word. Michael Jackson reports. The University of Westminster takes facilities management seriously. With 1.3 million square foot of buildings spread over 23...
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A working campus holiday
Summer comes in January in Middlesex when it starts planning its intensive 12-week summer vacation building maintenance, alteration and extension programme. This marks the start of the "outsourcing...