Taking sides (2 of 3)
The problem with watching football as a purist, which Mumford recommends, is that much English football is mediocre. Watching as a partisan, I get the pleasure, albeit far too rarely, of watching...
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Taking sides (3 of 3)
To me, the partisan element of football is in itself part of the game's beauty, part of its aesthetics. The swaying Kop of the 1970s, the old Roker Roar, the colour and majesty of the Nou Camp or the...
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Film review: Bobby Fischer Against the World
Philip Dodd finds darkness and oppression in a film of international chess master Bobby Fischer's life
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TV review: The Removal Men: Pickfords
Gary Day finds no sweetness in a series about Pickfords, where any dignity is denied for the camera
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David Colman, 1949-2011
A "polymath-in-chief" and internationally acclaimed expert on spinal injury and nerve cell development has died.David Colman was born in New York City on 4 January 1949. He studied for his first...
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Campus round-up
University of BrightonBuilding for biosciencesA new £23 million biosciences building that will house teaching and research laboratories has been opened by the science broadcaster Lord Robert Winston...
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Odds and quads
These images of a child receiving treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and from its Cromwell House convalescent home in North London, form part of the Historic Hospitals Admission Records...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Tome raiders
Sally Feldman hails the e-book’s rise - but many won’t abandon the paper trail
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14 July 2011
Support structures - How teacher training can help nurture world-class academics and institutions
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Funding council reaffirms case for Welsh mergers
Plans to merge Welsh universities to cut the total number of institutions from 10 to six have been backed by the education minister Leighton Andrews.
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Inside Higher Ed: Degrees of gravity
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
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Unions baulk at ‘third below-inflation pay offer in a row’
Higher education staff have been given a “final offer†of a £150 pay rise for the next academic year, provoking an angry reaction from the sector’s unions.
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One in three to charge £9k for all as Offa rubber-stamps access agreements
Tuition fees at English universities will average £8,393 in 2012, the Office for Fair Access confirmed today, significantly higher than the government’s estimate.