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Reason's small power
The Cambridge Companion to Hobbes - Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from the work of a Viennese knight: "There really is no such thing as Art." Entries should be submitted to: First Impressions, The THES,Admiral House, 66-68 East...
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Saving our bacon?
Human organ donor rates are declining and genetically altered pigs reared to provide organs for transplants to people offer real hope. But there are serious concerns about the dangers of passing on...
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Grants
University of Edinburgh Research grants Dr J. Russell, Pounds 166,820 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (sex steroid-dependent modulation of signalling by noradrenergic...
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Rolls spark shutdown
Physics and chemistry are in trouble. Physicists blame falling student numbers and cuts, while chemists finger the research assessment exercise At least five universities are threatening to shut down...
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Showdown over fees hike
STUDENTS in Nigeria face expulsion if they protest against university fee rises of up to 300 per cent, their government has warned. Some students have sworn that they will use "all means necessary"...
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Figures, for the (ab)use of
Interpreting Official Statistics
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a work that Oxford University ordered burnt in 1683 along with other "Pernicious Books and Damnable Doctrines": "Nature (the art whereby God hath made and...
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Science courses axed
Research formula will reward elite Physics and chemistry departments up and down the country are axing courses as student recruitment problems and the research assessment exercise take their toll....
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Birkbeck College
Physics and chemistry are in trouble. Physicists blame falling student numbers and cuts, while chemists finger the research assessment exercise THE Association of University Teachers has launched a...
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Wales waits in wings
Learning about Australia and the US The first BA honours course in Australian studies in the United Kingdom could run at the University of Wales, Lampeter if a proposal being developed there is...
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Menzies chief's quest for cash
Huw Richards talks to two men in the London hot seats of learning about Australia and the US CARL Bridge has come to Britain to promote academic interest in Australia. As Australia prepares to...
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Escape from eastern Europe via the older man
MEN have long suspected that the larger their wallet, the greater their chance of attracting the opposite sex. Now economists at Bradford University have proved it. By looking at information from...
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Colleges to go it alone on pensions
Colleges and new universities are hoping to free themselves from the teachers' pension scheme to avoid being subject to policy decisions designed for schools. The education minister James Paice...