Northern committed to merger despite delay
Northern College, Scotland's last free-standing college of education, has missed the anticipated August 1 deadline for its merger with Aberdeen and Dundee universities. The three institutions stress...
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Tories claim A levels are getting easier
The Conservatives have called on the government to review the A-level system after a study indicated that results have been "adjusted downwards" in recent years. Carol Fitz-Gibbon, professor of...
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Scottish music school launches BA in piping
The skirl of the bagpipes is about to achieve academic respectability. Today sees the launch of the world's first degree in piping, a collaboration between the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and...
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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 anthropologist who finds the tropics sad: " It has long been the fashion to invoke languages which...
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Painters' brushes with identity crisis
In the Image of Tibet
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Persian spiritual pain
Rumi, Past and Present, East and West
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A gem to be fished out of the tub
Angelaki
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Indicating the way out of slack waters
The medieval History Journal
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Revised views of a scattered people
Jewish Culture and History
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A look back at past masters
Encounters
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Where the monumental meets the minute
Egyptian Art in the Age of the pyramids - The Cairo Museum - Pharaohs of the Sun
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No need to hold the front page
The Daily Globe
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Willing servants emerge from shadow of Everest
Life and Death on Mt Everest
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How the world escaped nemesis
The Kennedys and Cuba
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Wed to nostalgia, seeking utopia
The End of Utopia