Honorary degrees
South Bank University DLitt: Melvyn Bragg, presenter and editor of the South Bank Show, controller of arts, London Weekend Television and author; Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of...
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Mo info
(Photograph) - Mo info: Mo Mowlam, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, opened the University of Teesside's Pounds 11 million Learning Resource Centre in her Redcar constituency last week. The...
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Danes in dumb dames row
A leading Danish historian has been officially endorsed as an external examiner at the country's top universities despite a storm over his view that women have become too dominant in higher education...
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DFEE's outline for UK's role in Europe
HIGHER education officials have echoed Tony Blair's call for a more positive approach to Europe during Britain's presidency of the European Union. As the prime minister set out his agenda for the...
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Four-step plan to accredit lecturers
Lecturers seeking professional teaching status in higher education should be tested against a national statement of required abilities, a key planning group has proposed, writes Tony Tysome....
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from the work of an economist familiar with a trinity of continents: "Starvation...
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Speaking Volumes: Twain, Kingsley, Dickens et al
Ruth Itzhaki on Twain, Kingsley, Dickens et al. I still have my childhood bookcase. It is plain but has glass doors, when I open them I can smell the sweet, musty smell of old books. I remember long...
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A truly celestial man
Edmond Haley
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A glimpse of the big picture
The Hermitage
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Swastika swing
Hitler's Airwaves
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Classic but not classical
Bach and the Patterns of Convention
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Fashionable cycle paths
Asset Prices and the Real Economy
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Soap opera with jackboots?
Spielberg's Holocaust
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Unlikely revolutionaries
China's New Business Elite
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Income-generation gap
Inequality in the UK