Music head quits over cuts
The head of music at Wakefield College in Yorkshire will resign at the end of this month in protest over "intolerable" cuts facing music education at the college. Richard Ingham, who is taking...
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Computer chips brought down to size
A computer chip the size of a postage stamp could soon have the power of 1,000 personal computers, say Cambridge scientists. This is because scientists have made a breakthrough in which they can get...
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HEFCE buys right to copy freely
Fears that a trip to the photocopier could lead to copyright infringement could become a thing of the past if a new funding council scheme is successful. The Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Taking the reins
(Photograph) - Taking the reins: John Webster, professor of animal husbandry at Bristol University and animal welfare campaigner, argues in a book published this month for a pragmatic, utilitarian...
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Science 'safe' in shuffle
Sir John Cadogan, director general of the research councils has moved quickly to reassure scientists that the United Kingdom research base is secure. The transfer of the Office of Science and...
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Augmenting the pharaoh's Egyptian
Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period
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Brutal tactics in a heavy-weight world
The Dutch Republic - The Transformation of European Politics 1763-1848
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Patching up the life-worn
Science and the Quiet Art
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The 'vast phenomenon'
Pushkin
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The champion of popular opulence
Hayek's Social and Political Thought
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The lion, the witch and the critic
Children's Literature - Children's Literature in the 1890s and 1990s
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U-turns on the road to Damascus
Contemporary Syria
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who, By the Way, started off as a banker: "The Empress turned on her side and closed her eyes with a contented little sigh. The moon beamed down upon her...
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Speaking Volumes: Productivity and Technical Change
Jonathan Mitchie on W. E. G. Salter's Productivity and Technical Change. How on earth do you pick the one book in your academic field which has meant the most to you? The books which have meant the...
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It's a wonderful life
It's a wonderful life: Jane Prophet of Westminster University and Gordon Selley of the London Institute display one of the artificial life-forms that will struggle for survival in a simulated world...