Care and share for the future
The "comprehensive review" of tertiary education decreed by New Zealand's coalition government will be very different from its many predecessors. In the past, reviews have been entrusted to hand-...
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Don's Diary
Friday Only four days left of British Hong Kong, but I decline bacon and eggs and opt for the congee breakfast. We are staying at Robert Black college, the old staff accommodation of the University...
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Skinny pigs give clue to anorexia
ANOREXIC pigs have led scientists in Wales to believe that the condition could have genetic as well as psycho-social causes. John Owen, professor of agriculture at the University of Wales, Bangor,...
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Socrates cuts cause outcry
BRITISH universities and colleges have joined in a chorus of protest across Europe against drastic cuts in European Commission grants supporting student and lecturer exchanges. They have condemned...
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First-class degrees on wane
THE NUMBER of students gaining top honours is falling, according to statistics published today. But the male/female divide remains, with 7.7 per cent of male students who achieved degrees in 1995/96...
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Trinity's new master
THE PRIME minister has appointed the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college, writes Harriet Swain. Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, will become...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from a dandy who took part in the Napoleonic campaigns: "On 15 May 1796 General...
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The science of getting it wrong
Yes, We Have No Neutrons
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Lost window of opportunity
Laboratory Earth
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A major, a martyr, a train station
Beyond the Frontier
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An era seen through a squint of despair
Encyclopedia of The United States in the Twentieth Century
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The Grimm splendour of a grand hotel
The Fontana History of Germany 1780-1914
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Occupied with a clash of symbols
Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
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Stars, bars and charting rhythms
America on Record
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Speaking Volumes: John Boyd Orr's Food and the People
On John Boyd Orr's Food and the People. I am an inveterate peruser of secondhand booksellers' catalogues and it was through one nearly 20 years ago that I bought a copy of Sir John Boyd Orr's Food...