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  3. A never-ending learning story

    Teaching and studying methods must be revolutionised if lecturers and students are to meet the challenges of modern life, says Patricia Partington. Reforms are necessary in learning and teaching...

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  4. Dusk heralds the night

    Writer Taslima Nasreen, who fled Bangladesh for the West after fundamentalists threatened to put her to death for her views on the Koran, asks if we are returning to an age of barbarism. We hear, we...

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  5. A contrary ventriloquist

    For Oxford political theorist and former Thatcherite John Gray the central point is that there is no central point. David Walker reports on a self-confessed 'contrarian'. Philosophy is back. So...

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  6. Splitting image

    Alan Ryan asks if America can attend to the difference of its many peoples and still preserve a single ethical, political culture. When I was very much younger, political theory rotated around...

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  8. A rebel with an endless cause

    Simon Targett talks to the establishment scourge Cambridge has honoured with a doctorate, Noam Chomsky. The college flags were unfurled, and the Duke of Edinburgh was leading a procession of...

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  9. ROMping to the bank

    Is all this "interactive media" still a solution looking for a problem which merely drains funding resources? David Clark argues for a complete rethink on uses of information technology. At a recent...

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  10. Age-old problems

    History is best done by historians, argues Arthur Marwick, who are often blind to the reasons why they write what they do, replies Hayden White. Arthur Marwick has (in the past) chided me and others...

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  11. Practising law with a provisional licence

    Academia is not for the faint-hearted: constructionists are knocked down by deconstructionists, structuralists are challenged by poststructuralists, feminists are attacked by revisionist feminists,...

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  12. Sawing off the limbs we are standing on

    World Resources 1994-1995 - People and the Environment: - The World at the Crossroads - The Gnat is Older than Man - Blueprint Three - Development and Environment: - The Ecology of Commerce

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  13. The empire strikes back

    The West insists on seeing the war in Chechenia as an internal Russian affair. But as Richard Clogg points out, it is only the latest episode in an old struggle by an independent people against their...

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  14. Access, equity and diversity

    Stringent fiscal retrenchment allied with expanded numbers of students have directed unprecedented attention to quality issues in higher education. Without doubt the single most important determinant...

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