A white knight of British cinema
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Will science fix it for 'us'?
The Next Fifty Years
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Showtime for popcorn sellers and the besieged
Sundance to Sarajevo
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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 novel with Nazi resonances: "What are the first words a visitor from France can expect to hear upon...
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From war to Waugh via the Cam
The Land of Green Ghosts
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Darwin and the 'heredity' peer
A Life of Sir Francis Galton
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Laurie Taylor column
Some PhD vivas are "held behind closed doors and examiners can behave as they like" - Susan Bassnett, The THES, January 10. Ah, Mr Maull, welcome to your PhD viva. I'm Professor Lapping, your...
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Alan Ryan
By the time you read this, Charles Clarke may have decided how universities are to be funded and how students are to pay for their courses. It looks as though some version of Nicholas Barr's long...
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Leader: If graduates must pay more, ensure it's fair all round
Most academics - like the vast majority of students and their parents - would prefer higher education to be free, funded from general taxation. They would like the government's strategy paper to...
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Room upgrades at a premium
Are private firms the saviours of dilapidated student digs? Helen Hague opens our student special by looking at changes in UK provision. Students raised on Changing Rooms and other makeover shows...
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Soak away essay worries in the hot tub
Are private firms the saviours of dilapidated student digs? Stephen Phillips surveys the US move into upmarket apartments. Unlike the cramped communal living quarters of old, US universities now...
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Private path holds hidden dangers
Are private firms the saviours of dilapidated student digs? Jonathan Rutherford considers the impact of PFIs. Higher education is joining the schools and health private finance initiative markets as...
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Loneliness of the long distance learner
The bizarre suicide of a Harvard chemist inspired a rethink of postgraduate support in the US. But where do UK universities stand on such issues? asks Chris Bunting. He was as meticulous in death as...