V-cs try to satisfy online appetite abroad
Overseas students want to learn English, business studies and information technology online, according to research conducted on behalf of the e-university. A call for proposals for courses in these...
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Stepping out with Wilder
Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot
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Tracts of their time that chart their struggle
The Chartist Movement in Britain, 1838-1850
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Britain's networking president
Oliver Cromwell
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Hirohito: waffler or warlord?
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
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Exam regime that outlived dynasties
A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is taken from a work by a travel writer best known for his books about Asia: "I had been afraid of Russia ever...
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Asbestos pants are all part of a nun-like life
The Gatekeeper
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Granite responses to an age in flux
Funeral Monuments in Post-Reformation England
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Happy ending to fairytale of purity
The Fragility of Goodness
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The Laurie Taylor column
The vice-chancellor will see you now, Professor Lapping. Thank you. Ah, there you are. Grab a pew. Now, look here, Copping. I understand you recently attended a lunch given by the Poppleton Rotary...
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Leader: Clear thinking at the top can curb 'initiative-itis'
Signs of hope at the heart of the Labour Party: higher education's old friends, David Triesman and Charles Clarke are planning some lateral thinking about the big trends in society, the impact of...
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Truth isn't out there 4
Martin Coward is correct that postmodernism opposes dogmatic claims about truth (Letters, THES , March 29). But by removing the possibility of rational justification, it leaves dogmatism or nihilism...
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In brief 1
Developing countries and the agencies that work with them are ignoring a huge source of expert help: academics who have recently retired and who would be delighted to be involved in teaching,...