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AWARDS The Smith and Newphew Award for the most outstanding student in years one and two on the Veterinary Nursing and Practice Administration BSc programme has been awarded to Katy Wilkinson , at...
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Merger decision on ice amid financial concerns
Merger discussions between London Guildhall University and the University of North London are being extended due to uncertainty over financial forecasts, writes Cherry Canovan . The final decision...
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Web father: keep a cool head over terrorism
Overreaction to terrorism by governments is a greater danger to civilisation than terrorism itself, the inventor of the worldwide web said in Oxford on Wednesday. Tim Berners-Lee, 3Com Founders chair...
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Welsh back grant revival
Welsh vice-chancellors are backing proposals for the Welsh Assembly to seek legislative powers to introduce maintenance grants and bursaries for students. The "green paper", The Learning Country ,...
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Room at the inn for freshers
Hundreds of freshers are being lodged in temporary accommodation because their universities have recruited more students than expected. Beds have been moved into dining rooms and even old bars to...
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From today's UK papers
Times Young people are more strongly supportive than the elderly of prime minister Tony Blair's handling of the British response to the terrorist attacks according to the latest MORI poll. Seventy...
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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 self-caricature by an English novelist: "It may happen in the next hundred years that the English...
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Pills, polygamy and Nobel lust
Miriam Stoppard takes a peek at the life of a scientific warrior. In the early 1960s, the public's expectations of new medicines were unreasonably high. Efficacy was taken for granted and so was the...
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Trading in the veil for a sword
The Begums of Bhopal
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Che, but with a sense of humour
Our Word is Our Weapon
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Democracy at last - well almost
Dirty War, Clean Hands
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War may not be nuclear
Nuclear Disarmament
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Can truth mend fractured lives?
A Country Unmasked
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An open door for closure
Coming to Terms - For Humanity