Bloodstained terrain of panic, dread and despair
England on Edge - The English Civil War
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Cue music and listen with misty eyes to verses found in translation
The Book of Lieder
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Meet your genetics father
Francis Crick
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Diamonds to die for and Dr Poison's dyeing art
Synthetic Worlds
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Shadows that lurk in the puzzle's dark heart
Detective Fiction
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To this new enemy, image is everything
Landscapes of the Jihad - Losing Arab Hearts and Minds
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Hit the pause button for a new level of understanding
Death 24x a Second
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There's no such thing as a free launch
It's hard for today's students to find an uncharted venue for their gap year. Vietnam is so passe. China? Positively out of date. So now one London postgraduate is looking for sponsorship to boldly...
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Reform sparks pay scramble
Glaring differences emerge between institutions as new salary framework kicks in. Claire Sanders reports Academics planning to move job in 2007 should shop around as the new pay framework has created...
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'Scholarship has been subject to an elaborate system of rewards'
Gill Nicholls, new pro vice-chancellor of Durham University, praises the professionalisation of teaching Society is losing track of what academics should be doing and what students are entitled to,...
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On the move...
* Tariq Ramadan , philosopher, Arabist and visiting fellow at St Anthony's College, Oxford, has been appointed visiting professor at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, for two years from January 1. *...
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Mystery callers will shop staff
Universities are using consultants posing as would-be students to test the 'customer care' skills of academics. Phil Baty reports Groups of fake students and their parents are being unleashed on...
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Tributes paid to 'formidable' Plymouth v-c killed in freak accident
Tributes were paid this week to Roland Levinsky, vice-chancellor of Plymouth University, who was killed by a falling power cable on New Year's Day. Professor Levinsky, 63, was walking his dog in a...
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Next week
When I'm 65 Will anti-age discrimination laws encourage employees to work beyond traditional retirement age? We ask those approaching decision time
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Bradford link stirred PM to press Shah to free academic detainee
Huw Richards learns of Wilson's part in the return of a student to UK When Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced his retirement in March 1976, he promised not to "accept the headship or any other...