Scottish grants oil the wheels of change
Support for the offshore oil and gas industry, modern language learning and the technology of thin film coatings are among 17 projects backed by the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council to help...
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Oxford to introduce part-time degrees
Oxford University is planning to establish a part-time degree for mature students as part of a raft of sweeping reforms aimed at addressing its access problems. Female students and pupils from...
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SA universities face up to HIV/Aids
A saliva test of 800 students at one of South Africa's top historically black universities found that 25 per cent were HIV positive. Confirmation at the University of Durban-Westville that the nation...
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Prompt loan cheque promise in jeopardy
Education secretary David Blunkett's promise that every student will have a loan cheque on the first day of the new university term is in jeopardy, it emerged this week. Members of a working party...
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu
(Photograph) - Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrives at the University of Hull. He was greeted by a South African student, Simangele Sekgobela (left) and her mother, Josephine. The archbishop was in Hull...
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Where does God sleep?
All in the Mind
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A bit of spit and Polish
Freedom, Fame, Lying and Betrayal
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a meticulous analyst of man's inhumanity to man: " I was captured by the Fascist Militia on 13 December...
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Rivals for the hand of grace
Jesus and the Muslim - Muhammad and the Christian
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Dreamer's dark side
Martin Heidegger
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Learning to teach the angst-free way
On Becoming an Innovative University Teacher
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Mostly misery and tedium
The Oxford Book of Work
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The value of an idol life
Lives of Indian Images
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All over tannin
Practical Polyphenolics
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Trojan hearse
Celebrating Homer's Landscapes