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Understanding Economics
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Truth behind the lines
Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World
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TV's social signals
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
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Ubiquitous Tebbit fails to perform
State and Society
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Unseating the seats of male power
No Distinction of Sex
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Flickering brilliance
A conference can make excellent raw material for a multimedia production - but do not let the cameras kill a living event, Peter Fowler warns. The idea of producing a CD-Rom floated to the surface at...
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Tracks to peace on a bird's back
Imagine sitting at a computer terminal, punching in a secret code and seeing before you the coordinates of a variety of birds in their migratory flight between their European summer home and African...
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G'day for Moscow
Australia's open university is to offer an Australian business degree to students in Moscow who will undertake their studies via the Internet, writes Geoff Maslen. The project is the result of...
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CVCP opens media links
Journalists in the United Kingdom will have much wider access to higher education through two free Internet services being launched by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. ExperNet is a...
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Hot Wires
Exposed The Museum of the History of Science has launched a World-Wide Web service which includes photographs from the 1840s and 1850s, among the 150 images for viewing at low and medium resolution.(...
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Open space for anytime learning
Dispersed trainers are logging on to conferencing-based masters modules. Many institutions now run distance-learning courses. However, the Advanced Learning Technology programme offered by the Centre...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF READING Readerships: John Abraham, reader in sociology; Jennifer Ames, reader in food chemistry; Grenville Astill, reader in archaeology; Leszek Frasinski, reader in atomic and...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE Research contracts Dr S Bond, Pounds 622,862 from Department of Health (organisation and delivery of direct patient care services): Professor J Burn, Pounds 74,869...
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Fellowships
ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING Honorary fellowships Douglas Cullen, senator of the College of Justice in Scotland and Lord of Session; Norman Foster, director, Norman Foster & Partners; Robert...
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Events
DEBATE ON EUROPE A debate on "Making the European Union Work" led by Helmut Schmidt, Valery Giscard d'Estaing and Edward Heath, and chaired by John Ashworth will be held at the London School of...