Trailblazer's rural revival
It has become almost the Elizabeth Esteve-Coll hallmark - some sort of rumpus in the first few weeks of a new job. In the late 1980s, as the new director of the Victoria and Albert museum, she caused...
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'Ageing' centre rejected
The great and good of the world of ageing research have rejected calls for a national research centre in gerontology. At a meeting at the Royal Society of Medicine last month, 60 senior people...
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Sussex listed for Schindler grant
American film director Steven Spielberg has pledged $100,000 of the profits from his epic Holocaust movie Schindler's List to a new centre of German-Jewish studies at Sussex University. Spielberg...
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Graduates penalised by public sector
An MP has claimed that graduates are facing discrimination for public sector jobs in Northern Ireland. Robert McCartney, independent MP for North Down, said parents should think twice about sending...
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Freeze damages student halls
The record sub-zero temperatures which made Glasgow colder than Moscow have disrupted the start of term for hundreds of students and caused thousands of pounds worth of damage. Round the clock work...
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Arabian sights
Alumnus to be proud of no 26 is Sir Colin Chandler, chief executive of the arms manufacturer Vickers, who was at the centre of the controversy over Saudi arms deals and the presence in the United...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a poet and novelist who studied architecture: "He left alone creeds and systems of philosophy, finding enough and more than enough to occupy his tongue in the...
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Speaking Volumes: The Road to 1945
Harriet Jones on Paul Addison's The Road to 1945: British Politics and the Second World War . I spent my evenings last August on the front porch of a cabin in the Blue Ridge mountains in the eastern...
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Artful dodgers
The Artful Universe - The Artful Eye
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Reader of the pack
Mindblindness
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Lady into woman
Vera Brittain
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Building in affluence
Architecture in North America since 1960
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Trust in the future
The National Trust
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Designer ethics
The Green Imperative
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At home in the inner city
Building Democracy