Tough love works for fledglings
Striking a balance between starving and spoon-feeding postgraduates is a tricky business, says Gina Wisker Doing a masters and, later, a PhD were two of the most important ventures I ever undertook....
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Maggie Gordon Age: 58 Job: Senior lecturer in graphic/typographic design and year tutor at Kingston University Salary...
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Cotton-picking tales of life up north
Slavery and Emancipation
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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 a Victorian novelist published by Dickens: "It is a great thing for a lad when he is first...
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It really is a small world...
Charles Darwin - Darwin and the Barnacle - Fossils, Finches and Fuegians
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Fluttering ideas in pinioned perfection
Coming of Age as a Poet
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Old imperialists egged on the new
A Companion to the Vietnam War - All the Way with JFK?
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Achilles and his awful power are never far away
The Mourner's Song
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From civic-duty shirker to member of the local militia
Restoration of the Republic
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Why we hate Bush's America
Rule of Power or Rule of Law?
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Laurie Taylor column
From: The vice-chancellor Subject: Working from home At a recent meeting of the Staff Efficiency Committee (myself and the bursar) it was agreed that the following clarifications should be made to...
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Leader: War on Mickey Mouse degrees will kill autonomy
We have reached the stage of the Parliament when opposition parties need to display some fresh thinking - preferably in fields where the electorate shows signs of discontent with current policies....
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Leader: Lambert right to toast a successful marriage
Leafing through the submissions to Richard Lambert's review of links between business and higher education, it would be easy to be pessimistic about the prospects for a closer relationship. Each side...
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Would you like that kitchen in red?
The ultimate weapons in the cold war armoury were refrigerators and washing machines, says Susan Reid. The US and the USSR fought for superiority between the pots and pans in a battle between '...
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A former England star's using his head to hit managerial goal
With the first half of his career over, footballer Tony Adams is developing an arsenal of intellectual skills to succeed in the second. Matthew Baker reports It has been a difficult transitional year...