Star Turn
A Scottish history lecturer teaches US students that there is more to Scotland than Braveheart. Olga Wojtas joins him on walkabout Groups of American teenagers visiting Edinburgh in the summer are...
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Why the mouse is the cat's whiskers
In an internet society, do youreally need to go to university? asks Peter Goodhew. Twenty students in Holland have registered to take Europe's first totally internet-based global masters degree in...
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Coordinated vision
University teaching courses should include subject-specific research, argues Pol O'Dochartaigh. Why is it that postgraduate certificates in university teaching contain very little about the subjects...
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Big Brother in public eye on ethics
The British Psychological Society is set to investigate a sociologist's complaint about psychologists' involvement in the television programme Big Brother. David Miller, research manager of Stirling...
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Rules on recruiting students relaxed
Funding chiefs have bumped up the maximum number of students each university or college can recruit next year, after a shortfall of 7,000 last year. Until last week, universities and colleges that...
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Increase in funding for higher education
The extra Pounds 100 million for higher education announced by the government last month represents a 0.5 per cent increase in the unit of funding, ministers confirmed last week. The lifelong...
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Russia bankrolls loans to students
Russia's state savings bank has launched the country's first national student loans scheme with education ministry backing. The Pounds 2.5 billion initiative by Sberbank is aimed at existing students...
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Blair initiative may dilute fund
British involvement in the Commonwealth's top postgraduate scholarship scheme is under review as education ministers from 54 Commonwealth countries come under pressure to step up their commitment....
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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 novel with the title of a minor metropolitan train station: " This is a true story but I can't...
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Finkelstein's final solution
The Holocaust Industry
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Rape is not just another word for suffering
Sex and Social Justice
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Mob rule with an eye for morals
Moral Economy and Popular Protest
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How joints lead to ozone destruction
Civilisation and the Limpet
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An egotist with selfless leanings
Francisco Toledo
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Taking a voyage to Mesoamerica from the comfort of the coffee table
Ancient West Mexico - Ancient Oaxaca