Friends of Blair
Who are they, how do you become one and does it help if you are at the London School of Economics? asks Brian Brivati Six months before last May's general election I wrote about how some academics...
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When a book is worth a sentence
Peter Knight explains why he is prepared to risk prosecution in defence of a homoerotic book he had never heard of until four weeks ago In December 1993 an event occurred that caused turmoil in the...
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Money man makes serial killings
Former academic Chris Evans is a hugely successful entrepreneur. Academics approach people like him to turn their ideas into gold. But, he tells Kam Patel, few are prepared for the ruthless, personal...
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What is the Third Way?
At the heart of the academic response to new Labour is the debate over the kind of politics the Blair government is developing. This has been described as the Third Way. But what is this Third Way?...
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Close-circuit cameras short-circuit justice
Courts place great weight on video identification evidence but, as Kate Worsley reports, research suggests that such confidence may well be misplaced I saw a woman mugged on her way to work last week...
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Why poor means poorly and wealth buys health
The west of Scotland is the unhealthiest part of Britain yet within it are small areas whose inhabitants are in the rudest of health. Two studies aim to pinpoint how social class affects our well-...
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Brown's starter for Pounds 20 million
THES reporters spell out what the budget means for universities and colleges THE CHALLENGE FUND AND TAX CHANGES The budget announced: A Pounds 50 million venture capital fund to help universities...
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Boxing clever
(Photograph) - Simon Roberts, a photojournalism student at The Sheffield College, has won the 1998 Ian Parry Award for photography for his 12-picture study of a local boxer, 15-year-old Daniel...
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Physicists get teeth into jaws
Kam Patel reports on speakers at the Institute of Physics congress in Brighton this week A PHYSICS-based technique is being used by Loughborough University researchers to provide insights into the...
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Battle for cash hots up
Latest submissions as the RAE consultation closed last week AUT AND NATFHE In an ideal world the unions would like to see the research assessment exercise scrapped. The Association of University...
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Hair-do
(Photograph) - Teresa Heady of the Textile Conservation Centreworks on a yak's hair earring from Assam in India, part of a collection at Kew Gardens. The centre joins Southampton University this...
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Maths to reduce pesticide wastage
Kam Patel reports on speakers at the Institute of Physics congress in Brighton this week PHYSICS and mathematics are coming to the rescue of agricultural researchers working to develop more efficient...
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Fact file
The Higher Education Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/96 reveal that: Of unemployed UK first-degree graduates, seeking employmentor training: 3.9 per cent had first-class degrees 38.4 per cent...
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Burn victims get skin fast
Kam Patel reports on speakers at the Institute of Physics congress in Brighton this week ADVANCES in materials engineering could soon result in remarkable new ways of growing human tissue, Sheffield...
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Employers' influence monitored
A SHIFT in the undergraduate curriculum away from a traditional academic model to a more applied one is under scrutiny at the Institute of Education. Atwo-year project, funded by the Economic and...