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University of Wales, Bangor Alan Elliot, director of the school of ocean sciences' unit for coastal and estuarine studies and member of the Welsh Office committee enquiring into the Sea Empress oil...
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Quality chiefs say no to unity
Quality chiefs have set out to reassure universities and colleges that they are not planning a national curriculum for higher education. Proposed new subject benchmarks setting a "threshold" standard...
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Conference
Speaking at the conference, Scottish education minister Brian Wilson said the QAA's structure provided an important and appropriate balance between United Kingdom and Scottish interests, writes Olga...
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Howells outlines UFI vision
Universities and colleges must be prepared to act as "regional powerhouses" directly involved in working with the new University for Industry, Kim Howells, the lifelong learning minister, said this...
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Top university may collapse
Telephones and power at Zambia's leading university might be cut off as fears mount that the university may not reopen. A financial crisis at the University of Zambia forced its temporary closure six...
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Global credit transfer
A WORLDWIDE network of major research universities is to draw up plans for its own credit-transfer scheme within the next six months. The Universitas 21 group decided at its second annual conference...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the work of a Dutch Jew who was expelled from his synagogue for his...
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Choking on the global myth
Globalising Food - The Doubly Green Revolution - Revolution at the Checkout Counter
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Familiar estrangement
D. H. Lawrence - D. H. Lawrence
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The art of artifice and abstraction
Nat Tate
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Boris's brutal little war
Chechnya
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An epistolary Stakhanovite
The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore
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A limited Excalibur
The Flight from Science and Reason
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Homage to the 'third universitie of England'
A Brief History of Gresham College
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Melting pots and salad bowls
Intercultural Education