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Blunkett calls for employer-union talks David Blunkett has called on university employers to sit down with the trade unions to negotiate pay. The education secretary made his plea at the Association...
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Latest international news
Ministers promote student mobility Commonwealth education ministers have put academic exchanges and student mobility at the heart of a seven-point action plan. The 54 member states, meeting...
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Latest enterprise news
British university teams won four of the ten prizes in the European software competition, EASA2000 in Rotterdam this week. Groups from the universities of Bath, Cambridge, Huddersfield and the Open...
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Re-routing world water ways
The global management of water must be rethought, a new report urges. Wendy Barnaby reports. If politics is the art of the possible, this document is a work of art." The first words used by Kadar...
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Friends and enemies of the earth
Playing Safe
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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 by a Scottish-Jewish Catholic dame: " Dame Lettie Colston refilled her fountain-pen and...
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The family enthroned
Queen Victoria
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Watching history in the filming
The Movies as History
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Bureaucrats in their own words
John Profumo and Christine Keeler, 1963 - R101 - Rillington Place - The Boer War, 1900 - The British Invasion of Tibet - The Judgement of Nuremberg, 1946 - The Loss of the Titanic, 1912 - The Strange...
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Wars that shaped the world
War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval World
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Between Stalin and Lady Muriel
Inside Stalin's Russia
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The race that became Iran
Frontier Fictions
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Spreading the good news
Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999
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The attraction of poles
Farthest North