Shakespeare, Milton, skin and ventriloquism
The English degree is a big favourite with students, but an increasing vocational spin is transforming how the subject is taught. Harriet Swain reports. William Shakespeare's victory over Charles...
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Stephen Connor, professor of modern literature and theory at Birkbeck College, is working on books about skin and ventriloquism. Using evidence from literature and many other cultural areas, he is...
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Time to cast out voodoo therapy
Psychoanalysis may be on its deathbed, but some of its ideas are clinging on to cause real harm, says Frederick Crews For almost 20 years I have been arguing that Freudian psychoanalysis, for all its...
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The sad business school: From blueprint to spire
July 1996: Oxford University announces plans to start a business school and that its ethics committee has approved a Pounds 20 million donation towards it from entrepreneur Wafic Said (right)....
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All sewn up:Oxford bags-of-money
Having seen off disdainful dons and eco-warriors, Oxford's Said business school is on course to open in 2000, with a complement of Pounds 80,000-a-year staff. Jennifer Currie and Sian Griffiths...
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Eye witness
Tension is high in the Middle East in the aftermath of Operation Desert Fox. The big question is how far United States and United Kingdom air strikes on Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's chemical and...
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University-of-Sussex
The University of Sussex, not the University of Surrey (THES, December 25), is to close its successful primary postgraduate certificate of education course next academic year. Â
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Warm-up
(Photograph) - David Atkinson of Liverpool University's school of biological sciences takes samples from an artificial pond built at Ness Gardens in the Wirral to test the impact of global warming....
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New Year's Honours
LIFE PEERS Onora O'Neill, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge; Sir Naren Patel, consultant obstetrician Ninewells Hospital, Dundee and lately president, Royal College of Obstetricians and...
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Milan
A law graduand at Milan's state university is under investigation on forgery charges following the discovery of three bogus "excellent" examination passes. Rector Paolo Mantegazza reported the case...
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Stockholm
Carl Tham, Sweden's minister of science and education until the general election last September, is to be chairman of the board of Sweden's Institute for Future Studies. The institute was formed in...
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Dealer to export Keele books
International book dealer Simon Finch has applied to export rare mathematics books sold by Keele University, despite assurances to the contrary. The university insists: "We were told the collection...
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High-flier forges career selling rare manuscripts
(Photograph) - SIMON Finch (right)has ridden the crest of a wave that has propelled antiquarian book sales into the first division of art and antiques dealing, writes Alan Thomson. Mr Finch, and his...
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Slav school merger gets the go-ahead
London University's School of Slavonic and East European Studies is set to merge with University College in a move that further centralises higher education provision in the capital. A SSEES working...
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British Library opens manuscript room
The Manuscripts Reading Room in the British Library at St Pancras opened to readers this week following the transfer of the national manuscript collection from the British Museum. The manuscript...