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The writing system that survived fire and confusion
Breaking the Maya Code
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Ennui? Here's life on a plate
Walter Sickert
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If you desire the sixth sense or sex, just have a sniff
Jacobson's Organ and the Remarkable Nature of Smell
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Private lives in the public eye
Voyeurism gone mad or a uniqueresearch opportunity? As TV series Big Brother begins its round-the-clock surveillance of ten British volunteers, Phil Baty talks to Oxford University's Peter Collet,...
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Losing a language to repair the past
English is usurping Afrikaans in South African universities. But, as Jennifer Wallace reports, some academics are resisting the demise of a language of oppression On top of the highest mountain in...
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'The students hang on every word, they're rapt'
Are visiting lecturers exploited part-timers or invaluable contacts with the world of work? Anne Sebba reports. Twice I have been a visiting lecturer. Never before or since have I faced such a well-...
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Three visiting lecturers explain their motivation
Thirty-four-year-old Robert Cole is investment editor at The Times and has taught financial journalism for two hours a week at City University, London, for the past six years. Cole, previously at The...
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Shaking down the Swiss
Politics professor Norman Finkelstein's controversial book accuses Jews of exploiting the Holocaust for profit. Tim Cornwell reports Fifty-five years on from the liberation of the concentration camps...
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Patently, we are getting much better
Can UK universities do more to exploit their ideas or is it British industry that is missing a trick? Ayala Ochert reports When Alexander Fleming discovered that the blue mould in his petri dish...
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Lima
Peru's university professors are pressing their government to subsidise the country's academic book publishers. Students are able to afford just one or two texts, often rendering course work...
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Bologna
A study of 43,717 students who graduated from 18 Italian universities last year has shown that 83 per cent were over 25 when they completed their studies. More than 73 per cent came from families...
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Dakar
Several hundred students at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, capital of Senegal, stormed the Romanian embassy in protest at the presence of Romanian ship Dorient Flower, which was stopped by...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available for academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to research@thes.co.uk Compiled by Sarah Knowles. A more comprehensive version of this...
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Why I... sit on the fence about ghosts
Vic Tandy Experimental officer School of international studies and law Coventry University Almost everybody I know has some kind of ghost story to tell. I do not have anything against ghost stories...