NZ could limit Maori intake
Spectacular growth by a Maori higher education institution may be dramatically reversed as a result of a New Zealand government initiative to control the rise in student numbers. Under a plan...
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Netting juicy flies of science
Galileo's Finger
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The divine proportion of pineapples
The Golden Ratio
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The fight for America's 'Serengeti'
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
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Changes that cost the earth
Making Global Trade Work for People - A World without Walls
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a feminist short story about madness: "It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and...
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Travellers' spicy tales of slaves and silks
Origins of the European Economy
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Easy access to a world of opportunity
International Trade and the World Economy
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Dash of liberalism topped with fancy
The Ideas that Conquered the World
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Laurie Taylor column
All students ought to be aware that they are the true spark of the transformation of the world - Ben Okri, THES , June 20 Are we agreed that candidate 26,125 should be a lower? You'd like a vote?...
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Leader: 'Dumbed-down' courses sell students short
All too few opportunities exist for academics and those concerned with universities or intellectual life more generally to come together for an extended discussion. Usually, such debates are squeezed...
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Leader: US race ruling welcome in quest for equality
Not for a quarter of a century has the higher education world awaited a Supreme Court judgment so keenly. If, as many expected, Monday's vote had gone against the University of Michigan's right to...
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'Somehow, I knew I'd see you again, you bastard'
David King and Ian Gibson were rival trade union activists at UEA in the 1970s. Thirty years on, they face each other again, this time fighting for British science. Steve Farrar reports Ian Gibson...
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Is that the sound of pop eating itself?
John Richardson delves into the virtual worlds and mixed postmodern message of animated band Gorillaz From Woodstock and Live Aid to Bill Grundy's interview with the Sex Pistols: there are some...
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Get your ankles out for the lads
The Sun is credited with inventing the Page 3 girl concept, but the tactic is nothing new, says Adrian Bingham More than 30 years after its introduction, The Sun 's Page 3 girl feature still...