Heritage lottery blues
Kingston had a similar experience to Durham University with the Heritage Lottery Fund ("Lottery rejects castle repairs", THES, August 11). Last January, I applied for Pounds 78,000 to support the...
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Spelling mistake
As the only person in my university who seems not to have changed his German spelling, I am heartened by Frankfurter Allgemeine and Deutscher Hochschulverband support ("Germans say no to simplified...
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A true test of talent
John Stein turned down Laura Spence. He is developing a test to identify smart students for Oxford Laura Spence has done brilliantly to get five As, despite the furore that followed Gordon Brown's...
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The price is definitely not right
Jeremy Hoad asks why universities spring extra costs on postgrad students, often when they can least afford them Consider this. You walk into a car showroom, choose a car, look at the price on the...
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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 novelist who once had presidential pretensions: " The man was tall and so thin he seemed always to...
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Beguiling footnotes to multiple allusions
Jorge Luis Borges: The Total Library
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Fragmented hero entirely suitable for modern look at living
The Epic of Gilgamesh - Ancient Mesopotamia
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Rewrite for fruit of Nazi passions
Oberammergau
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Human errors add to natural burden
Ever Since Adam and Eve
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A holy case of divide and rule
The European Family
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Quite a pair of Middle Age queens
Eleanor of Aquitaine - Berengaria
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How the idealistic leaders of the revolution turned to violence
Goodness Beyond Virtue
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Anatomy of doctors' beliefs
How Scientists Explain Disease
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Slave's complaint given voice
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation
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Trading bureaucracy for big business
In the last in our series on sabbaticals, Sandro Macchietto writes in praise of the spin-off experience We launched the company Process Systems Enterprise in July 1997 and I took 18 months off from...