Historical myth
What is this "decline" in the numbers taking GCSE history that keeps cropping up in your and others' pages (Letters, 8 September)? History's share of GCSE entries has remained stable for the past 10...
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Amateur ethos
Who do Christopher Grey and the collective of historians think they are kidding (Letters, 8 September)? It's not David Starkey's alleged lack of expertise that bugs them - it's what he said. Moreover...
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French lesson
When I was 17, 64 years ago, I sat the Higher School Certificate. In French, there was a grammar and essay paper and one based on the study of a play by Jean Racine, another by Pierre Corneille,...
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Mourn their passing
The University of Roehampton study that the seeds of some trees on Madagascar could be dispersed only through the droppings of a species of lemur (Campus round-up, 8 September) reminded me of an...
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Film review: Bill Cunningham New York
Duncan Wu is charmed by a modest octogenarian photographer and the vivid street style he documents
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TV reviews: Are You Good or Evil? & Appropriate Adult
Finding a gene for psychopathy does not help us face depravity beyond comprehension, says Gary Day
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Geoffrey Ford, 1942-2011
In addition to being a distinguished librarian, Geoffrey Ford was also famed for his "astoundingly untidy" office and formidable collection of Rudyard Kipling books.Born in 1942, Mr Ford studied...
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Campus round-up
University of UlsterGolden opportunityNorthern Ireland has been selected as the location for a Confucius Institute. Designed to foster academic, cultural, economic and social ties between China and...
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Odds and quads
These images of monkeys, from around 1840, are magic lantern slides.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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15 September 2011
21st-century docs - Cartoonist turns film-maker to create PhD The Movie
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Chase profit or risk being as ādead as discoā, university managers told
A Danish businessman has told a conference of European educators that university managers who resist the profit motive are sticking with a strategy that is āas dead as discoā.
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Scottish universities could face mergers over ācourse duplicationā
The Scottish government has said that some universities north of the border should merge to avoid āoverlaps in provisionā.
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Government accused of cutting science budget āby the back doorā
The governmentās rhetoric on the protection of science funding has not been matched by the āalarmingā fiscal reality, according to the Campaign for Science and Engineering.