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Police thwart activist bomb plot at Oxford A plot by animal-rights extremists to target Oxford University was foiled yesterday. Bomb disposal experts cordoned off an annexe at Templeton College after...
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Today's news
Universities call for an extra £168m Scotland's universities want an extra £168 million from the Scottish Executive to increase student numbers, improve facilities and pay for lecturers' wage rises....
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Bridge over the 'Faithful Sea'
Trickster Travels
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Render unto Adam Smith
The Marketplace of Christianity
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The Lord gives youth, and takes it away, too
Imagining Childhood
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Test of benefits for mice and men
Stem Cell Wars
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Think before you eat: it could harm your wit
Aguecheek's Beef, Belch's Hiccup, and Other Gastronomic Interjections
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a biographical ramble by counterculture's reluctant voice: "Lou Levy, top man of Leeds Music...
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Rebels who quit beaten paths
Women, Gender and Enlightenment
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Look up from your screens into the wider world
Computers and People
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Belated hearing for women wronged
Writing, Gender and State in Early Modern England
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Laurie Taylor Column
From: The Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive Subject: Surge in science applications I am sure you will wish to congratulate the management of this university for the dramatic 2 per cent surge in...
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Alan Ryan
It was William Bowen, the president of the Mellon Foundation, who passed on to my wife the aphorism: "If you want a job doing properly, give it to a busy woman." But it's nice to see the Corporation...
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Leader: Could it be that v-cs deserve their pay rise?
Can an annual rise of 7.9 per cent in vice-chancellors' salaries be justified when academics had to settle for an increase of 3 per cent in the same year? In most cases, and with a couple of...