A rebel with an endless cause
Simon Targett talks to the establishment scourge Cambridge has honoured with a doctorate, Noam Chomsky. The college flags were unfurled, and the Duke of Edinburgh was leading a procession of...
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University for cars
The UK motor industry is looking to establish a "virtual university" to help it stay level with world competition in the 21st century. If the virtual university becomes a reality, managers at more...
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Staff morale falls in ex-polys
Surveys of staff attitudes at two former polytechnics have found serious criticism of management at both universities. A Natfhe survey at the University of Westminster found that 42 per cent of...
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Labour to revamp A levels
Labour leader Tony Blair is unveiling his party's plans to reform A levels and post-14 vocational qualifications at a lecture at the Institute of Education in London today. Labour wants to create a...
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KGB haunts Iliescu
Ion Iliescu, Romania's president, has been forced to appeal to his old university, the Institute of Power Engineering in Moscow, to provide proof that he was not recruited by Stalin's secret police...
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Team effort
(Photograph) - Team effort: England will be in tomorrow's Rugby World Cup final after all - as providers of the ball. Engineers from De Montfort University used a Pounds 35,000 Teaching Company...
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Between beast and man
The concept of beastliness. The moral philosopher Mary Midgley talks to Martin Kelly about one of her first papers, "The concept of beastliness", and her first book, Beast and Man, published in 1979...
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When the Earth boils
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in volcanic eruptions over the past few years. To mitigate future disasters Hazel Rymer says we need to understand and recognise the signs of an impending...
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Musical cheers and the beautiful noise
Few would dissent from the view that music has a central and almost essential place in personal cultural life but the reasons for its universality remain obscure. John Barrow offers some possible...
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Safe sex, safer publishers
A study found that images in safer sex material reinforce the social construction of men as sexually active and adventurous and of women as sexually uninterested and passive. But the images were...
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Safe sex, safer publishers
Stephen Neal, group publishing director, Taylor and Francis, defended the decision not to publish the offending illustrations. "Any publisher has the right to determine what is appropriate for their...
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Safe sex, safer publishers
(Photograph) - Gay men are offered material that represents safe sex as fun, highly erotic, imaginative and pleasurable (left) but that for heterosexual women (right) is devoid of any suggestion of...
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God's timely revenge
The discovery of my own weakness was the first symptom of taste" - Edward Gibbon's words must spring to mind when anyone is courageous enough to speak about the relationship of the universal and the...
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Don's Diary
Tuesday. Three days before I am officially back on the payroll after maternity leave. It takes an hour to come round from a night of sleep broken by my ten-week-old son. Spend this hour over...
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Quick fix, poor quality
The Higher Education Funding Council for England proposals for the development of quality assurance received a pretty severe mauling by the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. The strong...