History man in jail
Akinjide Oshuntokun, head of the history department at the University of Lagos, has been held without charge for eight weeks by Nigeria's State Security Service. Professor Oshuntokun was intercepted...
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Scottish student leaders defeat grants demand
The leadership of the National Union of Students Scotland has fought off an attack on its student support campaign. An amendment by Glasgow Caledonian University, which accused the union of betraying...
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Universities could face annual shortfall warns NUS
Universities could face an annual shortfall of up to Pounds 31 million through parents not supporting their children's education, NUS has warned. Its figures are based on estimates of parents'...
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Child benefit 'transfer' call
The Treasury should transfer Pounds 600 million from the social security budget into direct support for college students, the government's advisory group for further education student support will...
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Education department attacked for failure to predict growth in further education
MPs attacked education department permanent secretary Michael Bichard for his department's "disgraceful" failure to predict growth in further education. At a meeting of the Public Accounts Select...
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Performing arts students from New College, Durham
(Photograph) - Double take: Performing arts students from New College, Durham, rehearse Bertolt Brecht's Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, which they performed last weekend at the Newcastle...
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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 a tale of a maid of Marshalsea: "Thirty years ago, Marseilles lay burning in...
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Phallus and fallacy
Glyph-Breaker - Rongorongo
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The aspiration to exhibit
From Knowledge to Narrative
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Legal dons in the dock
Against the Law
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More than a hack's guide to city tales
Dickens's Journalism 2 - Charles Dickens
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Acerbic appeals to authority
The Merry Heart
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The seducer communist
A Preface to Greene
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A very human sacrifice
T. S. Eliot
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Voices of victimhood
Post-Colonial Theory