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A-level results to add pressure for university entrance tests Universities are coming under mounting pressure to adopt admissions tests to distinguish between the best candidates as record numbers of...
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The calculated climb of the medieval gentry
Blood and Roses
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by an immigrant who loved Britain's architecture: "A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln...
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Did the ancestors think of the future?
Past Futures
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East-West curiosities exchange
Goa and the Great Mughal
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From below-zeros to absolute heroes
Nimrod - Sir James Wordie, Polar Crusader
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Sumptuous even down to the sweat
The Empire of the Great Mughals
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For the full picture, do not ignore the score
Dmitri Shostakovich
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There will be no end to this timeless quest
The Infinite Book
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Left and right anger at politics clampdown
A decision by the council of the University of Pretoria to depoliticise student governance has angered not only the nationalist Right, but also radical student groups. The council has ordered that...
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Judge backs family in MIT suicide case
A US judge has ruled that a university can be held responsible for a student's suicide, in what could be a landmark decision. Judge Christine McEvoy ordered that the parents of a student at the...
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Anger at scholar's book on abduction
An Italian academic's justification of the Vatican's forcible removal of a Jewish child from his parents to be raised as a Roman Catholic in the 19th century has angered academics, including one of...
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Lecturer locked out after race comment
An Australian university law lecturer has been suspended after publicly criticising African and Asian immigration. But civil libertarians, some students and the National Tertiary Education Union said...
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Study now, pay later plan will ensure a rich return
Deferred fees and improved student support will help to attract graduates into research, argues Teresa Rees One of the many heated debates surrounding the introduction of undergraduate fees was their...