Tryst with westerny
Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee - The Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947-97 - The God of Small Things
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How the Bomb's creator learned to love the United States
The Neutron and the Bomb
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Looking up, down the barrel
Eyes on the Universe
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Celling cancer
Matters of Life and Death - Racing to the Beginning of the Road
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Facts and frictions
Monad to Man
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A starry, starry knight
Edwin Hubble
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A brush with phenomenalism
Science and the Perception of Nature
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Honorary degrees
University of Glasgow DD: Ernest Best, emeritus professor of divinity and biblical criticism and noted authority on the Gospel of St Mark. DEng: George Bennett, general manager of Motorola and...
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Class in action
Four students tell Elaine Carlton what they think of university teaching Annette Bailey, 21, BA hons architecture (name changed as the student feared reprisals from the department) I really felt as...
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It's an anti-national thing
A national teaching certificate could soon be compulsory for lecturers, but controversy surrounds the issue. Alison Utley finds academics sceptical Most academics reject the idea of a national...
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Art of humour
A David Starkey lecture is combative, outspoken, controversial and provocative, reports Alan Thomson David Starkey did stand-up comedy as a Cambridge undergraduate and appears to have lost little of...
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Limit your overheads
Teaching is being professionalised in some universities, reports Olga Wojtas Few skills may seem more basic than those needed to use an overhead projector, but beware. "It's a common mistake to put...
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Appointments
The Quality Assurance Agency John Randall, former director of professional standards and development at the Law Society, has been appointed chief executive. The following have been appointed to five...
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Learn to mark it up
What is the best way to promote good teaching? Why, promoting academics who are good at it, of course, says Ray Cowell How to make sure that the brightest and best staff think of a career focused on...
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New term, new teaching
A national teaching certificate could soon be compulsory for lecturers, but controversy surrounds the issue. David Baume argues for a cultural change What would persuade universities to put energy...