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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening lines,is from a former resident of Chalfont St Giles: "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree...
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Correction
In our review of Stuart Sutherland's Breakdown (16 October), he was incorrectly described as a professor of English, rather than of experimental psychology. Also, a journal was wrongly titled Bedlam...
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Higher channels
Stay media-literate with John Davies's weekly radio and television round-up. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week Geology gets the blockbuster treatment in BBC2's ambitious new series Earth...
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The brain maker
Geoffrey Hinton believes that machines have the ability to think. And, he argues, it is this artificial intelligence that will help us to understand the workings of the human brain. Helen Hague...
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Battle of the dons of war
Inspired by his grandfather's time in the trenches, Niall Ferguson attacks the academics who sent students to their deaths The first world war was a catastrophe for all Europe. It also devastated...
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Commission impossible
Lord Jenkins's report on electoral reform was published yesterday, but it simply confirms that there is no such thing as a perfect system, writes David Butler Margaret Thatcher did not like using...
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It is time to ask whether ww1 was worth so many deaths
My grandfather had just turned 16 when the first world war broke out. The recruiting sergeant believed him when he lied about his age, but before the formalities of enlistment could be completed his...
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Double speak
What's the best way to teach a second language? Alan Thomson reports on a debate that has occupied academics for over 40 years How people learn a second language is the subject of a 40-year-old...
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World watch
China's expenditure on education rose by 12 per cent in 1997 to Yuan253 billion (Pounds 19.4 billion), representing 2.49 per cent of gross domestic product, according to the state statistics bureau...
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Pressure grows over drop-outs
Vice-chancellors are preparing to tackle funding council chiefs over drop-out rates. The Higher Education Funding Council for England is preparing to release drop-out figures based on a narrowly-...
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The THES Diary
Those in favour Mayhem ruled at this week's Oxford Union debate on student fees, sponsored by Andersen Consulting. National Union of Students president Andrew Pakes, due to speak against the motion "...
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Teething troubles
(Photograph) - Richard Smith displays a dental measuring system, using a digital camera and computer analysis, he and other members of Sheffield University's child health department have developed.
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The troubled international joint ventures
* Southampton Institute In June 1996, the Higher Education Quality Council published a critical general audit report on Southampton Institute. The HEQC criticised the institute for withholding from...
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Don's Diary
Week ending July 17 Informed that the number of students for my advanced business computing course next academic year should be 56 - double this year's 28. Put in request for a lecture room with SVGA...