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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 could tell his Tom Collins from his Harvey Wallbanger: " Though I haven't ever been on...
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Higher channels
John Davies on the broadcasting week ahead (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Despite its unconvincing first episode, dreadful music and dubious reconstructions, BBC2's Ape-man series has...
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A new twist in an old turn of phrase
Noam Chomsky is taking linguistics in yet another direction. Domenico Pacitti reports It might come as a surprise to British professors, but, according to American linguistics professor Noam Chomsky...
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Enter through Real Life, exit in Nude
When the Tate Modern opens in May, will visitors like the radical grouping of art into 'Nude' or 'Object', or simply get lost looking for the masterpieces? asks Karl Sabbagh. Right, the academics'...
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Enter through Real Life, exit in Nude
"The difficulty of seizing the common principle that pervades all the fine arts has been much enhanced by the disposition I to refer to one particular school as the sole measure of excellence," wrote...
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Enter through Real Life, exit in Nude
The Tate's decision to organise its collection around themes rather than around dates is academically sensible. It is a transparent and convenient method of organising artworks and one that doesn't...
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The best a man can get
Beards may be unpopular among the Blair boys, but Jennifer Wallace talks to academics who are (mostly) resisting the razor. First Alastair Darling shaved off his "demonic" black beard. Then Peter...
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Oxbridge: beta-minus-minus
Having viewed universities on both sides of the pond, Simon Blackburn finds Oxbridge graduate studies quaint and less than professional. Anyone seeing the recent flare-up of argument over the rival...
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Slap on Factor Four
Eco-architecture is beginning to have an impact on higher education, says Oliver Lowenstein Earlier this week at the Royal Institute of British Architects, futurist Amory Lovins presented his vision...
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OU library with termodeck
Full-length versions of these articles are at www.thesis.co.uk Peter Sandy looks at how the library has always been a central feature of academic institutions. A storehouse of knowledge, a place to...
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Mancat purrs to site sale
Mike Sherrington says that selling a city-centre site to a regeneration developer and getting a new building on part of the site able to accommodate an almost equal number of students sounds...
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Transport hits the right gear
Jim Whelan says plans are afoot to help ensure higher education is a leader in environmental management. One initiative,led by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals and the Association of...
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Era of 24-hour university nears
David Dunster reports that universities throughout the United Kingdom may well have budgets in excess of Pounds 50 million to spend on expansion over the coming years. They have become developers -...
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Towards a green campus
Bill Holdsworth describes how universities are striving to introduce sustainable technologies to their building programmes. Several projects embody the latest design philosophies, but are progressive...