A case of class action
Malcolm Deas rejects my first-hand impressions of Bolivarian University of Venezuela (UBV) as representing "genuine widening participation" with "high standards" (Features, December 1) and has...
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Other ways to add up
Ross Anderson's arithmetic (Letters, December 8) on possible voting in a future Cambridge Council is, of course, correct. But is it not bizarre to suppose that a heterogeneous group of the membership...
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A sift through sands reveals no grain of truth
Anthropologist Jeremy Keenan says his fieldwork in Algeria shows the Bush Administration distorted truth to open a Saharan front in its War on Terror In the second week of March 2003, 32 European...
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Goodbye to kipper ties and sideburns
Turn off the alarm clock, the OU is being taken off air - consigned to history by new technology. Huw Richards reflects on 35 years The University of the Air is being taken off air, as new technology...
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'Starting with a piece of liver...and other classic introductions'
Steven Rose mourns the loss of innovative television and that OU staple, a big beard The nine of us (two biologists, two chemists, two earth scientists and two physicists, plus our charismatic dean,...
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Parallel lives
An academic and his undergraduate son at the same university offer different perspectives on an issue. This month: the season of goodwill The father Just occasionally, something your offspring says...
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Kingsley's other Lucky Jim
It is little known that the unspinnable Amis rejoiced in the 007 genre, says Brian Morton Nowadays, not even those involved in making James Bond movies balk at references to the series as a "...
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Today's news
V-cs outline three-year funding demands Vice-chancellors are calling for university funding levels to be maintained in order to plug the funding gap in teaching and infrastructure, a submission to...
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Latest research news
More brain used to recognise faces Brain cells that are selectively tuned to identify gender and ethnicity have been found by scientists in an area not previously thought to be associated with the...
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Today's news
University offers cut-price courses for top students A university is seeking high-flyers by offering a £2,000-a-year discount in top-up fees to students with three grade As at A-level. The offer, by...
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Today's news
Iran students denounce Holocaust denial Dozens of Iranian students burnt pictures of President Ahmadinejad and chanted “Death to the dictator” as he gave a speech at a university in Tehran yesterday...
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Today's news
Language barrier blocks British graduates British graduates are missing out on top business jobs because of their lack of language skills, an academic has warned ahead of a review of the Government's...
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Hannibal and the chick dick
Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by an author who, like Wilkie Collins, wrote what was termed "sensation novels": "Faint streaks of crimson...
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A symphony of the arts in high notes and banknotes
The Culture of the Europeans