'Right wing' German history disowned
The editors of a multi-volume history of Germany are demanding that the publisher include a note in the latest volume on the National Socialist period distancing them from the views it expresses....
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Changes ahead
From January 1996, Noticeboard will change its emphasis to give more space to people in further and higher education in terms of appointments, promotions, honours, awards, fellowships, etc, of...
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Working out: Scottish rugby international Gavin Hastings
(Photograph) - Working out: Scottish rugby international Gavin Hastings this week reopened Glasgow University's indoor sports facilities after a 15 month, Pounds 4.5 million refurbishment. The...
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Quality teaching premium proposal
English universities are to be asked whether a teaching quality premium should be included in a revised teaching funding formula. The question is included in a consultation document issued this week...
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A misconceived agenda
Gavin Fairbairn believes abortion is wrong. The academy, he says, thinks he should stay silent A couple of years ago a student told me how shocked he had been that I had "admitted" to my belief that...
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Rebel yell at vulgarity
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko explains to Radhakrishnan Nayar how capitalism has polluted Russian culture At the end of an hour-long interview over breakfast at the Charing Cross Hotel, Yevgeny...
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The ascendancy of man
Roger Penrose tells Kam Patel why he thinks human beings will always be cleverer than computers and why we need a new physics Most of us at times will come across some aspect of the physical world...
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Alf, the cinder fella
Simon Targett reports on how a dispute among medieval historians over the authenticity of King Alfred's biography (Asser's Life) has grown from an argument about burnt cakes into a flaming row about...
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Part of the equation
Will the Budget revive demands to rethink higher education funding? Ann Hanson, David Smith and Ian Pyper want a model based on part-time students' needs. Earlier in the year it looked as though The...
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No more local heroes?
I was interested to see Anthea Millett's article, which was written before the Universities Council for the Education of Teachers had prepared its response to the publication of the Coopers and...
