Projectionist of the past
Following a career in film studies, Liz-Anne Bawden tells Gail Vines how she is now showing a town's memories at Lyme Regis's museum. Liz-Anne Bawden is proof that there really is life after academia...
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To cut a long Tory short
The culture of power without responsibility heralds not only the end of a government but the disintegration of Conservatism, writes John Gray. We know better than to expect resignations these days -...
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Dropout growth rooted in neglect
Universities and colleges need to provide more support for students to combat growing dropout levels, according to a report from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. Staying or...
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Fine figures
(Photograph) - Emma Rogers, a third-year on the University of Wolverhampton's BA in ceramics and glass, has won one of the 100 places at the "Ceramic Contemporaries" exhibition at the Victoria and...
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Seismic surname
A stunned welcome to an American scientist who is visiting the United Kingdom this week to talk about his work in seismology - S. G. Schock.
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Shephard calls for vocational drive
The Government has told the new independent careers services to overturn the reputation of vocational qualifications as second-class, and give them parity of esteem with academic qualifications....
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Slow climb up gender biased spires
Oxford and Cambridge universities have made progress over the past five years in providing opportunities for women, but there is still a long way to go, says a report from the Hansard Society. The...
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Academic answer to sale of aid agency
The Natural Resources Institute looks set to be taken over by a group of universities led by Greenwich. The Overseas Development Administration, which owns the NRI, announced this week that the...
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Labor's defeat signals turmoil
The conservatives' staggering win in Australia's federal election last weekend is expected to lead to severe disruption on university campuses. Higher education unions warned this week that they...
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The ruinous ghost of empire past
When blind eyes are turned to the past, eyes that no longer see the racism and exploitation of the British Empire but blaze with the remembered glory of a triumphant dominance, then a confection-like...
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Vile bodies
Our thought is so obsessed with the body that it has become trapped in a carcass of its own making. Valentine Cunningham believes it is time to move on. We are all somaticists nowadays. Like Philip...
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More classic lines
John Davies discovers in these culturally relative times that even the canon in Greek and Latin is not immune to revision. There has been much debate in recent years over the worth and composition of...
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Don's diary
SATURDAY. Hateful rain sheets down. Still, set off for Oxford to visit friend's daughters, one reading chemistry and the other English. Both have college rooms that are quite palatial compared to...
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Sorry Ollie
Just a nitpicking correction to the phrase quoted from Oliver Hardy in "Does the Rt Hon Lady . . ." (THES, Feb 23). It should have been "That's another fine mess you've GOTTEN me into!" Perhaps I...
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How to turn the league tables
To celebrate International Women's day today, The Times published a "league table", listing the 100 most powerful women in the world. While the criteria used for ranking potential candidates (...