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  1. Mistaken identity

    Crisis? What crisis"? That was my first reaction to Alan Munslow's claim that history as a discipline is facing a growing crisis of identity, a philosophical crisis of its empiricist foundations ("...

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  2. Bespoke tuition for today's new readers

    UNDERGRADUATES used to "read" for their degrees; they were not "taught". They did not even "study" for the qualification. Theirs was a student-centred activity, in the library or laboratory. They had...

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  3. Exploring pathways in the east

    THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...

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  4. NUS to get corruption inquiry

    The National Union of Students has bowed to demands from Scottish student leaders for an independent inquiry into allegations of corruption in the NUS. A motion at the recent NUS Scotland conference...

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  5. Don's diary

    Thursday With a day's leave to hand I visit the Paula Rego exhibition at the Liverpool Tate gallery. I am stunned by the quality and range of her work. In the afternoon I go to the Alma Tadema...

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  6. Hollywood lavas

    Volcanoes are all the rage in Tinseltown. Tim Cornwell looks at how the studios have attempted to cloak their hokum with a veneer of academic respectability. The film Volcano opened in Los Angeles...

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  7. Fertile dream fields

    The latest low-budget feature to emerge from Australia's film-school alumni continues a success rate young British filmmakers can only dream of. Chris Johnston reports. We were just dying to make a...

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  8. Wave upon wave from surfers' paradise

    Australian films have achieved success around the world since the first wave of filmmakers broke through in the 1970s. Hits such as Mad Max and Picnic at Hanging Rock paved the way for recent efforts...

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  9. The English and the others

    Bernard Crick argues that we already have a quasi-federal state - it's called Britain. The current angry chauvinism springs only from English, not British, angst. Whenever I read a report of a...

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  10. Food feuds: a safety issue to chew over

    Tim Lang, Erik Millstone and Mike Rayner send a memo to the prime minister on why international experience suggests he should set up a new food agency. Now the general election has passed, the new...

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  11. Swan's song of Chairman Mao

    Jung Chang is taking the art of history writing from the familial to the global with her biography of Mao. Lucy Hodges talked to her about it. Later this month - just weeks before Hong Kong reverts...

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