Antiquity's Euro future
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New initiative grapples with tired clichés
Journal of Marketing Communications
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A specialist guide that lacks grass roots
Population Biology of Grasses
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'Jumping' to a wrong conclusion
Consilience
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Poetic licence denied
Never friendly to critics, Ted Hughes's estate has stopped an academic from quoting his work. Sian Griffiths surveys a battle for scholarly freedom Former Poet Laureate Ted Hughes has been dead just...
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'This is not how poetry lives'
Poetic licence denied "What can one do?" Olwyn Hughes once asked. "Should one just let them quote and let the myths get wilder and wilder - or should one try to correct them, as I have done?" What is...
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How close were you to your dead child?
That's what the Charity Commission wanted to ask the parents of 109 dead children before releasing compensation. Iain McLean outlines the aftermath of the Aberfan disaster and a charity law in dire...
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These women had so many breaks but they still have not got to the top
Women have more career choice than ever, but a survey of Cambridge alumnae shows that even those graduating in the past 15 years do not make it at the highest level. Alison Goddard reports When Diana...
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'I love you - you'll look great on my CV'
As Valentine's day nears, Alison Utley reports on a disturbing trend: men working at relationships Everyone knows that women want love and men want sex. It is also plainly obvious that women are the...
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Higher channels
John Davies casts an academically inclined eye over the week's radio and TV programmes. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week In the week the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report is to be...
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A bit of trench warfare
Time Team star Mick Aston is happy to help the public bone up on archaeology but he dug his heels in over submitting his work to the research assessment exercise. Harriet Swain reports It is about...
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Tap at fame
(Photograph) - Rose Ingram, of Wolverhampton University and winner of the National Pottery and Ceramics Festival student prize, displays her latest work, Water Vessels.
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Sources for research funding
Each fortnight this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk Corporation of London Robert Blair Fellowship in Applied Science...
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Unions envy 4.8% rise
Vice-chancellors got an inflation-busting average pay rise of 4.8 per cent in 1997-98. The best-paid vice-chancellor was the dean of the London Business School - a position held in turn by George...
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Plea to double professors' pay
University professors' salaries should be doubled, the House of Commons science and technology committee was told this week. Sir Keith Peters, head of Cambridge University medical school, told the...