Freedom as an asset
When the University of Buckingham was founded more than 20 years ago, many wondered how long it would last. Others hoped that more private universities would follow to challenge the idea that all...
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Fellowships
Cardiff University Honorary fellowships: Claude Allegre, French minister of education, research and technology; David Cooksey, chair of the university's Challenge Fund Steering Group; Ieuan Evans,...
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Englishman heads Monash
David Robinson has become the only Englishman in the past 20 years to have been successively appointed vice chancellor at two Australian universities. A former pro vice chancellor at the University...
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Glittering prizes
The Royal Academy of Engineering has given fellowships to: Anthony Ball, director of materials engineering, University of Cape Town; Yvonne Barton, chairman of British Gas Asia Pacific Pte Limited;...
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Family fortunes of Bronze Age mint
The East in the West
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A massacre in Eden
Over millions of years the fauna and flora of North America have evolved in time with continental shifts. But these changes pale when compared with the devastating impact made by man, writes Tim...
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Genetic equation doesn't add up
The Maths Gene
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The country en suite, en masse
Twentieth Century British Social Trends
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Chronicle of crises that's soft and noisy
World Disasters Report
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Dick Bird
NEVER THE SAME AGAIN. A history of the VSO. 206pp. Cambridge: Lutterworth. Pounds 25 (paperback, Pounds 15). - 0 7188 2975 1. I am sure young Americans would learn a good deal in this country...
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Star Turn
With space toys that look like something from the Early-Learning Centre, Surrey University is rivalling Nasa. Pat Leon meets the man putting Surrey into orbit A youngish man clutching a metal...
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Moguls court U21
MELBOURNE The global network of higher education institutions, Universitas 21, is negotiating partnerships with at least five international corporations over its plan to run courses over the internet...
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Prejudice behind the pomp and baubles
Both rank and race dictated imperial order, writes John MacKenzie. Ornamentalism is a brave title. It might be construed as reflecting just surface pattern and design, the arabesques that gladden the...
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MM 2001: Looking for the next Balkans
Where in the world will major conflict flare up next? Tim Cornwell considers the likelihood of Pakistan and Colombia being the future flash points Guided cockroaches scuttling under doors to pinpoint...
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Beijing takes the software pearl in Macau's crown
Next month, China extends its borders and gains the world-class software institute where Jonathan Bowen has just spent the summer Macau is only an hour's hydrofoil ride from Hong Kong across the...