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Divisions of massed facts pitted against bold raiders
The Great World War 1914-45, Volume 2 - The First World War, Volume 1 - The Myth of the Great War
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From the Sultanate to Silicon Bangalore
A Concise History of India
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Siting the Palatine by the Potomac
The Cambridge Ancient History
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Hairs and graces: in pursuit of the hirsute
Paulinus Noster
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Laurie Taylor column
'New university for Poppleton shock' - Poppleton Evening Press A well-known local company yesterday announced plans to establish a third university in Poppleton. In a shock statement to the press,...
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Woman of substance
Alison Richard's climb to the top of academia is truly inspirational, writes Susan Bassnett Alison Richard's nomination as vice-chancellor of Cambridge University is a big step forward for the...
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Leader: Use the carrot not the stick to focus minds
There is a brutal logic behind ministers' enthusiasm for teaching-only universities of the type that led Margaret Hodge to ask why the government should fund institutions that could not attract...
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Leader: Broader skills are just what doctor ordered
The reservations of British medical academics about the doctors who will emerge from the new fast-track, graduate-entry degrees will not stop the change to new patterns of medical education....
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RAE review: Gladiatorial contest is the victim of its own success
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking In many ways, the research assessment exercise is a brilliant...
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RAE review: Tired, hard-up RAE seeks saviour with light touch
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking Walk into any academic department in the UK, ask what the...
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RAE review: Precocious teenager will benefit from scholarship
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking It is 15 years since the first research assessment exercise,...
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RAE review: More clarity and less secrecy will counter bias
The research assessment exercise review panel wants to see radical change. The THES asks three experts to do some out-of-the-box thinking My first suggestion for improvement of the research...
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Designed for another life
Randolph Nesse is on a mission. Normally a professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, he is spending a year at University College London, and one of his targets while in town is the "...
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Cutting edge: Visions of the past
Belinda Chang and her colleagues have used molecular biology to recreate history in their laboratory How do you research the vision of a creature that's been extinct for more than 200 million years?...