Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an 18th-century work that is part novel, part educational treatise: "My master, congratulate your son; he hopes soon to have the honour of being a father. What a...
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Speaking Volumes: Return to Camelot
Jeffrey Richards on Mark Girouard's Return to Camelot . Although books are now a central and indispensable part of my life, I grew up like many of my generation with films. It was films that shaped...
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Replay for quality plan
Vice chancellors will discuss their response today to the Higher Education Funding Council for England's proposals for a single quality assurance agency. The response drafted for their consideration...
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French scientists condemn atom tests
The decision by French president Jacques Chirac to resume nuclear testing has triggered protests from French researchers, backed by scientists around the world. Scientists at the Orsay University,...
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Institutions think local on pay deals
Many higher education institutions want a major reduction in the number of pay bargaining groups down to either a single salary structure or at most two, according to a preliminary analysis carried...
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Plea fee
(Photograph) - Plea fee: Former Bar student Cecilia Hulse faces possible legal costs of up to Pounds 100,000 after losing her High Court appeal over a decision by the Council of Legal Education to...
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Newtonian time lord
David Lorimer talks to Nobel prize-winner Ilya Prigogine about introducing the arrow of time into the basic laws of physics. Ilya Prigogine has had a lifelong preoccupation with time. Years ago he...
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Turning battles into bunker hills
Anthony Gross calls on scholars to remember their duty and defend historic battlefields such as Tewkesbury from incursions by housing estates and golf courses. Most of the issues dealt with by the...
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Coercion by the Nile
Muhammad Mahmoud reports on the ordeal of an academic who has fallen foul of Egypt's Islamic law. Academic freedom and freedom of expression were dealt a severe blow two weeks ago in Egypt when an...
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Universal picture
Martin Rees describes how cosmologists aim to set our solar system in a grand evolutionary scheme by describing a cosmic history probably beginning with a'big bang'. Whilst this planet has been...
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Cupitt's measure
Gerard Kelly meets priest-philosopher Don Cupitt, a radical who discomforts the faithful. Don Cupitt, priest and philosopher of religion at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, is not complimentary about the...
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Mothers of reinvention
We live in a world characterised by rapid change. We all know that. One response is to recognise that learning has to form an integral part of our lives if we wish to avoid being shipped on to the...
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Don's Diary
THURSDAY. "Bore Da. Bwrdd Yr Iaith Gymraeg. Welsh Language Board." Even though I have heard these words on several occasions, I am taken aback since it is unusual to hear anything other than English...
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Researchers with contract to fulfill
Universities and colleges are now legally obliged to consult both recognised unions and the individual employees concerned over every redundancy, even if it is the normal termination of a fixed-term...
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Ideas behind the launch of morale-saving scientists
In your "News in Brief" item (THES, June 16) you state that the Labour Party has launched an initiative - Scientists for Labour (SfL). This is not an entirely accurate description of the genesis of...