Apple of Mac's eye honoured
Jonathan Ive, the designer who refashioned the personal computer with his Apple iMac, has been awarded an honorary doctorate of civil law by the University of Northumbria. Mr Ive, vice-president of...
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Spanish to design next chip
Computer multinational Compaq and Spain's Polytechnic University of Catalonia are to set up a centre in Barcelona to design microprocessors. The new research laboratory, known as Barcelona Systems...
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In the information wars, we are on the front line
"We believe we have the right to create something new." That is how one student activist described the philosophy of Otpor (Resistance), the Yugoslav student movement that played a key role in...
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Working is a class issue
Having a job in term-time is not just an academic problem, it has implications for access policies, writes Robin Humphrey. A recent study of undergraduate students covering all seven faculties (...
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Why I... believe Lorna Sage inspires by example
As a professor of literature at the University of East Anglia, Lorna Sage may have seemed like a member of the establishment, but she always had the nerviness of an outsider, of someone who was (in...
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QAA should stay its heavy hand
Proposals for an inspection regime that varies in line with top-up fees are flawed, writes Geoffrey Alderman. In a paper leaked to The THES , the Quality Assurance Agency's chief executive, John...
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Readers' reactions
Last week in The THES... David Triesman argued that the University and College Employers Association is moribund. The UCEA certainly has problems, and the higher education unions would strongly...
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Higher education awards
University of Bournemouth The following have been presented with honorary doctorates: Ian Carruthers , chief executive of the Dorset Health Authority; Bill Cotton ,former managing director, BBC...
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Shrewd in all but sacrifice
Phoenicians
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Obsidian yes, lapis luzuli no
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
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No hope of reality modifying brilliance
Belief in genetics hype is Watson's problem, says Tom Shakespeare Max Delbruck, the pioneer of 1930s genetics, inspired James Watson to abandon ornithology for molecular biology and later labelled...
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Pulling the petals off the tulip myth
Famous First Bubbles
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an autobiographical novel, published posthumously: "When I was a small boy at the beginning of the...
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Shining Knight of the free market
Selected Essays by Frank H. KnightVolumes One and Two
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Pioneering spirit in the global city
Merchants to Multinationals