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Computer curfew for students after spate of campus suicides For more than a decade the seven elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have been churning out world-class computer whiz kids for the...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an autobiographical work: "In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. In the month of...
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An odd pair with a passion for all things pure
James Joseph Sylvester - Arthur Cayley
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A few notes on teasing worms
Darwin Loves You
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Obscure object of affection
Is Pluto a Planet? A Historical Journey through the Solar System
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Dusted off to revive its gleam
The Curious History of Relativity
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Beware: English bulldog stirring
The Nations of Britain
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Belle of the battlefield who flirted amid shot and shell
Mrs Duberly's War
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Laurie Taylor Column
No need for students to feel out of touch when Ken Robards is around, Bill Batty reports. Dr Robards, a senior lecturer in small animal psychology at Poppleton University, is a man with a mission. "I...
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None of us can relax in this dog-eat-prof world
UK higher education cannot afford to be complacent about potential global rivals, argues Howard Davies. British universities have gone through a difficult passage. But after decades of declining...
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Leader: Fixed-term jobs, limited thinking
For the first time in years, casualisation among research-only academics - the group that traditionally suffered most job insecurity - appears to be falling. It is a decline that will accelerate as...
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Leader: To (almost) boldly go
After decades of hibernation, the UK space programme is back. The key to its revival is the idea that spacecraft do not need to get bigger and pricier. Smaller and smarter technology can make...
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Supporting acts 1
The Scottish National Party's separatism is not "popular", as your columnist Maria Misra asserts (Features, March 2). At the last election, the SNP polled 17.7 per cent of the vote in Scotland, its...