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Education minister quits to take on Italian government Italian premier Giuliano Amato has taken over the universities ministry following the resignation of its minister Ortensio Zecchino, who is to...
Education minister quits to take on Italian government Italian premier Giuliano Amato has taken over the universities ministry following the resignation of its minister Ortensio Zecchino, who is to...
£15 million announced for Scots technology programmes Wendy Alexander, Scotland’s minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has announced £15 million for information and communications...
FINANCIAL TIMES Douglas Breeden has been named dean of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, North Carolina. THE GUARDIAN University of Surrey biologist Johnjoe McFadden argues that unless...
Mapping the Town (11.00 am R4). Julian ( Meet the Ancestors ) Richards starts a new "hidden history" beginning with Cardiff. Afternoon Play – Victorian Marriage Beds (2.15 R4). About Strindberg and...
SATURDAY February 3 » Breaking the Seal : Tax Records (9.30 am BBC2). Episode two of Open University archive series, first shown last year. Soaps on the Couch (10.30 am R4). How do soap operas...
The Death of Gentlemanly Capitalism
The Lords of Tikal

Despite evidence that the red planet is a poisonous desert, James Lovelock writes, finding life on Mars remains for many scientists a Holy Grail. In the 1930s, Electric Lane in Brixton, south London...
Creation
Web Teaching Guide
Proof, Language and Interaction
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a travel book by an English novelist who wrote a novel aboutthe same country: " The border means more...
Inland Flood Hazards
North Sea Cooperation
Emissions Scenarios