Rectors as peace-brokers
The rectors of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, of the Jesuits' Gregorian University in Rome and the vice president of Cairo's Al-Azhar University met in Rome as Christmas approached to promote...
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Data interpreted
The Government has produced a handbook to help further education colleges meet the needs of business and the labour market. It will help them interpret local employment data.
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Christmas spirit
(Photograph) - Christmas spirit: Drama students on the BA course at Bretton Hall University College, Wakefield, performing a scene based on Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management at a "Festive...
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Loan chief is named
Colin Ward, assistant managing director of the Student Loans Company, is to become chief executive for three years from January 1. Mr Ward joined the company in 1990, but Sir Eric Ash, acting chief...
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Stars in their ancient eyes
Celestial bodies dictate the calendar and once stopped a war. John Barrow ponders their effect on the human race The Christmas story follows a star - or at least a triple conjunction of Saturn and...
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Object lesson
For Chinese art scholar Jessica Rawson, now warden of Merton College Oxford, object and text tell different tales. But in order to get the whole story we need both, as she explains to Simon Targett...
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Baroque and roll
What is in the musical canon - and what should be? John Davies asks music academics to nominate their noteworthy top ten. "Is there, or should there be, a canon of great works or great composers that...
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Balancing act is hard to follow
Far from a feel good factor, the expenditure cuts announced in the budget have in higher education provoked universal concern and despondency. Those affected - staff and students - are unlikely to be...
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Blair's flair for top hats
I must say that the hat you picture Tony Blair wearing on your front page, (THES December 8) is rather fetching. I wonder if he could make this his trademark, like Harold Wilson's pipe, or, since he...
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Bishop's move in seat of learning
While I could not agree more with T. C. Simmonds that it is wholly inappropriate for a further education college to confer the title of professor on its staff (THES, November 24), it is important...
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New model argument
So is Roger Penrose (THES, December 8) an opponent of computer science, pathetically fighting for the superiority of physics over computing? I wonder what has caused this ludicrous bias? It seems to...
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Canon lore for musicians
In attempts to define the literary canon, the oldest works usually cited are the Iliad and the Odyssey, both of which are about 3,000 years old. This means that people got on fine without them for...
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United by a sense of outrage
Universities are in serious decline. Many senior academics have recently used this, and the latest round of Government higher education spending cuts, to argue the case for top-up fees as a way out...
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Phoenix needs help to rise
* Edinburgh University and Edinburgh District Council have joined in a town and gown initiative to help combat the trauma suffered by children over the past four years, Olga Wojtas writes. Nigel...