Derby's running well
With reference to your article concerning the Israeli Higher Education Council's (HEC) consideration of licences for British universities to award degrees ("Israel puts Derby on hold", THES, August 6...
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UCAS set to field extra calls
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service is braced for a flood of extra calls as lecturers target next week's A-level results. UCAS fears that the summer admissions and clearing process,...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a book that features a xanthic thoroughfare: " Dorothy lived in the midst of the great kansas...
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How Hamlet and Lear got along with the sumo and the samurai
Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage
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Intimate sketches of the Third Spain
¡Comrades! Portraits from the Spanish Civil War
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Higher Channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week If agricultural history deserves a higher profile, then Sussex University's Alun Howkins is providing it. In the final...
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Dead poet's propriety
Having spent his life opposing the 'fence of ownership', 19th-century poet John Clare is now at the centre ofa copyright spat. Jennifer Wallace reports on this ironic twist of fate A poet is a...
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New job, new challenge, New Zealand
In the fourth of a series on opportunities abroad, law professor Stephen Todd explains why New Zealand offers the kind of challenges, academic and environmental, that he could never hope to find in...
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Readers' reactions
Helen Kiernan Research officer Southampton Institute Last week in The THES... David Kendall and Michael Randall called for more research into the use and effects of cannabis In the current climate,...
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Don's Diary
Monday Lunch with participants in the summer school to prepare for tomorrow's simulated conference. Estonians delighted that their countryman, Jaan Kirsipuu, is leading the Tour de France, but warn "...
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Abuja
Salisu Buhari, speaker of Nigeria's house of representatives and constitutionally the country's fourth most senior citizen, has resigned after falsely claiming that he had received a degree from the...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
Public funding of postgraduate research in arts and humanities has a threefold purpose: * To provide resources for research and scholarship * To support training for students who wish to prepare for...
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Sorry saga of PhDs
As a recent PhD graduate in management I would be interested in helping to found an organisation to act as a forum for the experiences and interests of PhDs seeking academic or research-related...
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Mexico City
As the impasse over the 15-week student occupation of the National Autonomous University of Mexico continues, officials accepted that there is no time to complete class work for the spring semester....
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Rome seen as never before
ROME An ambitious programme of archaeological excavations is laying bare large new areas of ancient Rome and forcing archaeologists and historians to rethink many long-established and generally...