A leading role for Britain
The report welcomes prime minister Tony Blair's initiative to recruit 50,000 more higher education students from overseas by 2005, but it calls for action to encourage mobility among students from...
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Sports science: 25 years old
Tom Reilly, professor of sports science at Liverpool John Moores University, was a staff member at LJMU (then a polytechnic) when it set up Britain's first sports science degree in 1975. The...
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A peace of the action
For an expert on war, Michael Howard is much taken with the bits in between - peace. Harriet Swain talks to him It is a warm day and Sir Michael Howard suggests we take our tea - the shorter silver...
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A peaceful look at sights for war eyes
Jonathan Black looks at how working-class artists depicted British Tommys Sculptors face numerous problems when tackling the subject of war in peacetime. After the first world war, for example, they...
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Racial tolerance on a wartime ration
Britain stood alone against the Nazis in 1940, but as Sonya Rose explains, the thousands of blacks who came to its aid discovered racism and injustice and that the cliffs at Dover were very, very...
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Any excuse to miss the horror
Some soldiers faked VD to avoid combat, while more than 300 were shot for deserting. Joanna Bourke explores cowardice In war, mass slaughter is intentional. No one who has witnessed the agonised...
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Gulf war syndrome: a psychological illness?
We have just left behind a century of unprecedented violence. In the dawn of the 21st century, it is imperative that we study how different societies have participated in acts of war, often with...
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Higher channels
John Davies studies the broadcasting schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Murder, arson, suicide; baptisms, weddings, beauty contests; bankers, farmers and a crazed window-smasher...
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Goodbye to the garret
Will the students now displaying their work at degree shows nationwide ever make money out of it? Harriet Swain reports on efforts to teach business techniques to art students Starving in a garret...
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The flying Dutchmen
Host nation Holland began Euro 2000 as favourites. Academic Alex Strating tells Huw Richards one surprising reason for this Dutch anthropologist Alex Strating has a coolly objective view of his...
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A sporting chance
It may be the most popular degree subject in Britain, but is sports science just a fad? Jennifer Currie reports When Mike Reid decided he wanted to be a sports scientist he thought he was a decade...
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The next stage: the science of bigger balls
Now 25 years old, sports science has reached middle age, says Steve Haake, senior lecturer in Sheffield University's department of engineering. "The new kid on the block is sports engineering....
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Kuwait
Kuwait's parliament has passed the first round of legislation that will introduce private universities to the conservative Gulf state. Gender segregation is already in force in state universities and...
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Copenhagen
The Royal Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University is to rebuild its main auditorium after its destruction in a gas explosion last month. The auditorium was completed in 1858 using special...
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Addis Ababa
Asmara Ethiopian and Eritrean students have refused to take part in the war between the two countries. A majority of students at universities in both capital cities has refused to volunteer.