Imperial vs imperious
I have been applying to study electrical/information systems engineering. I have offers from Imperial College (AAA) and York (ABB), my second and third choices, as well as from other universities I...
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'Helpful' QAA report
According to you (THES, 10 December) we are "in hot water" following receipt of our Quality Assurance Agency audit report. Rather than waxing indignant about comments regarding our association with...
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Believers in beauty
England's One Thousand Best Churches
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an author obsessed with millennia: " The drought has lasted now for ten million years, and the...
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Occidental overstretch reversed by microchips
Twentieth Century
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Gentlefolk, noble savages and ghastlytradesmen
Aristocratic Encounters
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Art of turning metal into merit
The Art of Burma
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Anglo heights hint at his Vertigo
English Hitchcock
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Lift buttons, libraries and the Bible Belt
Faster - The Clock of the Long Now
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Awe, wonder and gene committees
How the Laws of Biology Reveal Purpose in the Universe - The Spirit in the Gene - A Walk Through Time
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Neuro-sceptic smells snake-oil
The Undiscovered Mind
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How to obtain the full report
The full report, price Pounds 15.00, is available to order from all bookshops. The full report is also available on thecommittee's website at: www.studentfinance.org.uk
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Events and ideas: 999-1200
* EVENTS 999 A scientist as well as churchman, Silvester II becomes pope. 1000 Norwegian Leif Eriksson lands in Vinland, perhaps Canada. 1050 Musical clefs and staves invented 1054 Schism between...
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Events and ideas: 1200-1345
* EVENTS 1204 Crusaders sack Constantinople. 1208 St Francis founds Franciscan order of friars. 1215 King John signs Magna Carta, limiting royal authority. 1216 St Dominic founds Dominican order of...
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Events and ideas: 1700-1800
* EVENTS 1700 England and France dominate African slave trade to America 1738 Wesley founds Methodism 1748 Utilitarian philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham born 1752 American statesman and...