Higher channels
John Davies looks, listens and selects programmes of academic interest (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week. Human ancestry seems to be a media obsession. While C4's Secrets of the Stone...
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A second world war of words
The courtroom, says US academic Deborah Lipstadt, is no place to debate theHolocaust, but faced with a libel suit froma fellow historian, she has no choice but to fight her corner. Profile by Anne...
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First year's salary: Pounds 23m
As increasing numbers of academics flex their mathematical muscle in the City, Thomas Bass examines the multimillion-pound prospects for two pioneers and sketches the emergence of a new field of...
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A look to the future for Britain's past masters
History will remain a popular choice among students, says William Rubinstein, because it is a soft option. Most of today's students are the first from their families to have gone to any university;...
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First right, second left...
Whose thinking underpins those manifesto pledges that make or break political parties? In the run-up to the next election, Harriet Swain kicks off a new series on the brains behind Britain's...
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We're on a road to nowhere
You might think that after six years training in the law, you'd be guaranteed a job. You'd be wrong. Phil Baty asks whether universities are cashing in on student naivety. The old-boy network is...
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Political input
Board member of the London-based think-tank Centre for European Reform; published the monograph After Social Democracy through the think-tank Demos three years ago and now writing another on the...
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Chris's story
Five years after embarking on a law degree at University College London and spending tens of thousands of pounds on the way, Chris will next year begin the final year of training on the road to...
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Jordanian beats path to Israel
JERUSALEM The ice between Jordanian and Israeli academics may finally have been broken by a Jordanian professor visiting the University of Haifa. Muhana Haddad, who teaches sociology and anthropology...
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Move to private revenue
MELBOURNE. Australia's universities will increasingly be forced to rely on private sources of revenue, according to federal government spending figures for higher education over the next three years...
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Bamako
About 500 students from Mauritania studying at the National University in Bamako, capital of Mali, have occupied their country's embassy in protest at non-payment of their bursaries for the past...
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A step into troubled waters
Study of Sri Lankan reservoirs exposes David Simon to a critical week in a war-torn country going to the polls. My flight from Heathrow touches down in Colombo at 3.30am for a week's research co-...
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Astronomical changes afoot
The widening scope of British astronomy could spell the end for an Anglo-Australian collaboration. Julia Hinde reports In the new millennium, optical astronomy - one of the world's oldest sciences -...
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Burma lets students trickle back
BANGKOK Burma's universities, closed by the country's military junta in 1996, are steadily reopening, according to the government. But education authorities have been accused of deliberately...
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Brussels
German-born Klaus van der Pas is to be the new director general of the European Commission's education and culture directorate. He was spokesman for former commission president Jacques Santer from...