Visiting Fellowships
Deadline: 31/01/2003
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Summer Programme
Deadline: 28/02/2003
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Moving story of the sea floor
Plate Tectonics
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Morality of shopping for babies at the clinical casbah
Making Babies
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Quacks, quirks and dogs called Psyche
Scanty Particulars - Bodies Politic
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Running round in rings
Seahenge
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Historic vogue to set life in stone
Epigraphic Evidence
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Reds of high ideals but low impact
Party People, Communist Lives
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An intellectual coven that moved America
The Metaphysical Club
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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 memoir by a pioneering woman pilot: "How is it possible to bring order out of memory?" The winner...
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Laurie Taylor Column
At this time of year, The THES traditionally invites a number of key individuals and organisations in higher education to send their personal new year greetings. From UUK (Universities UK) Happy new...
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Leader: Fairness and clarity are key to viable reform
New years are meant to begin with a burst of optimism and an appetite for change. In 2003, the optimism may be tempered with caution, but no one in higher education should be taken by surprise at the...
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US cellist has some tips for British social harmony
Brown gets it right, Blair and Hodge don't. In giving help to the less fortunate, unsentimental respect is preferable to patronising pity, argues LSE sociologist Richard Sennett. He talks to Laurie...
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He who cares wins
Terry Philpot meets the ex-priest, father of two and foster father of 40 who has landed the UK's top social care job. The Social Care Institute for Excellence, set up by the government to evaluate...
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How does an expert join the ranks of the fame academy?
Over the past year, academia mourned the loss of some of its most high-profile public figures. Harriet Swain asks publishers and agents who will fill their shoes and what is needed to make a scholar...