Radical new order for French science
Jane Marshall meets the woman who has been set the challenge of bringing about a revolution in French scientific research A few years ago France's foremost body of scientific research was criticised...
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Working in a warmer winter wonderland
Caltech's answer to Jack Frost is cooking up snow crystals in sunny California. Steve Farrar reports. One day in 1947, it snowed in Pasadena. Startled children and bemused adults awoke to see this...
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Exit tests to boost English
Voluntary English exit tests are to be introduced at Hong Kong's eight universities in response to growing concerns at falling English standards in the workforce. But there are disagreements about...
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Graduate job vacancies fall
The uncertain economic climate is beginning to have an impact on graduate careers and salaries, a survey of employers has found. Increases in graduate starting salaries are slowing down, graduate job...
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Latest news
Delayed start for new funding arrangements Education secretary Estelle Morris has told MPs that possible changes to student funding arrangements resulting from the Department for Education...
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From today's UK papers
Lower entry standards revealed at universities New evidence that universities are lowering their entry standards was published yesterday by the University and Colleges Admissions Service. Although...
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APPOINTMENTS University College Chichester Richard Bunker , director for education and the arts for West Sussex, has been appointed chair of the university college's governing body. Hong Kong...
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Birth and death of harmony
The End of the Peace Process
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Subversion thrives in a melancholy musical mix
Harrison Birtwistle
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Expulsion that enriched West
Daniel Snowman on Hitler's unwitting legacy to the UK and US. Hitler, by his brutal and obsessive cultural nationalism, inadvertently presented some of the finest products of German and Austrian...
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Objects of desire struggle to unite
Design and the Decorative Arts, Britain 1500-1900
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Spare a thought for your toaster
Designing the 21st Century
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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 about two itinerant farm labourers: "A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in...
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Dye cast when first tooth falls
Textiles from Guatemala - Miao Textiles from China - Printed and Dyed Textiles from Africa - Embroidery from India and Pakistan
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Swathed, slashed and pleated - wrapping up the fashion industry
Radical Fashion - The Fashion Book, Mini Edition - Fashion Today - Visionaries