New approach to Old English
Old English is considered old hat in some universities. But the internet is helping to keep it alive. Tony Tysome reports Oxford University caused a stir in English literature departments up and down...
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Nerc sinks centre for coastal research
The troubled Centre for Coastal and Marine Sciences is to be disbanded by the Natural Environment Research Council. Despite an Pounds 11 million rescue package nine months ago, a long-term decline in...
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Downgraded Italian lecturers secure Prodi review
Pisa The European Commission is to reconsider the case of more than 1,500 foreign-language lecturers in Italian universities who were downgraded to technical staff in 1995 when trade unions agreed a...
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Academic snub KOs boxers
The International Boxing Academy has accused college chiefs of "academic snobbery" and "a disgraceful betrayal" this week following a fight about the status of the Olympic sport. Students from the...
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Pay row dashes hopes of 'new approach'
Leaders of lecturers at new universities rejected a "derisory" pay offer of 3 per cent this week, despite being offered a better package than their old-university counterparts. A meeting between...
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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 historian who had a second go as first lord of the admiralty: " After the end of the World War of...
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Holocaust on the right side of kitsch
Reading the Holocaust - German National Identity After the Holocaust
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Multifaceted poet with a good line in kitchen utensils
Rilke, Modernism and Poetic Tradition
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Sceptical examination of belief disguises surrender
How We Believe
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Insomnia that saved the planet?
The Kyoto Protocol
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Beneath the butterfly hunter's camouflage
Nabokov's Butterflies
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Leeches were not the only option
Research shows Anglo-Saxons could teach today's herbalists a thing or two about healing Although they might appear less advanced than other Dark Age cultures, it seems the Anglo-Saxons could hold...
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Four of the 11th-century therapies
* FOOT ACHE Take helenium roots and boarthroat roots and dock roots. Boil very well in butter; drain out through woollen cloth; let cool. Afterwards, smear the swelling; he will soon be better....