Religious quiz for parking permit ends
Bar-Ilan University's management has decided to cancel its practice of issuing two types of parking permits: one for religious lecturers and the other for their secular colleagues. The decision...
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Anti-Nazi drive gets masters nullified
A postgraduate degree awarded 11 years ago has been withdrawn by the University of Lyon-III on the grounds of revisionism after campaigns by anti-Nazi bodies. Jean Plantin, a publisher who two years...
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Student deaths: £1.5m bill for PM
A commission of inquiry into the killing of four students by police at the University of Papua New Guinea has been postponed while prime minister Sir Mekere Morauta joins a mourning ceremony with...
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Promotions
Goldsmiths College, London The following have been promoted to readerships: Dr Kate Lowe , senior lecturer in the department of historical and cultural studies; B. Jerome Sokol , senior lecturer in...
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Awards and prizes
University of Oxford The George Webb Medley Prize for best thesis submitted for the MPhil in Economics has been awarded to Thomas W. L. Norman , Nuffield College; Proxime Accesserunt: George Konaris...
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Latest international news
China accuses US-based scholars of spying China has begun trials of two scholars who are accused of spying for the United States, according to the State Department. Li Shaomin, a US citizen who...
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From today's UK papers
Independent Up to 10,000 young people are "missing" from their schools and have left no trace of their whereabouts, according to Ofsted, the government's education standards watchdog. The commercial...
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Latest UK news
Education minister grilled about fees MPs quizzed higher education minister Margaret Hodge yesterday about further and higher education funding and university tuition fees. Ms Hodge said there would...
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Holy burnt fathers and Catholic mummies
Nicholas Saunders praises a great scholarly effort that overturns historical prejudices in a fine reassessment of a continent .At the beginning of the 20th century, South America was the least known...
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Blood spilled in a struggle for oil
Ken Saro-Wiwa
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Watch what you say, Human Rights Act is no knight
Political Libels
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Will Justice trade in her scales for a mouse?
Transforming the Law
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Inspired beyond understanding
William Blake - William Blake: The Creation of the Songs - William Blake
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a philosopher-novelist with a passion for swimming: "Five hundred guineas!" said Mor's wife." The winner...
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Reconstructing the spirit of an age
Rebuilding the Reichstag