Garrick inspires Lords revolt
The government has sanctioned one anomaly in its refusal to fund a fourth year at Scottish universities for non-Scottish students. But, asks Olga Wojtas, how different is higher education north of...
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Time bandits make real gains in virtual space
Many British universities are missing out on the spectacular benefits of virtual reality technology for teaching and learning. Roy Kalawsky points to a few that are leading the field Practical...
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Mellow fruitfulness tops the pick of the poems
The Classic Hundred Poems. A Columbia Granger's Multimedia Anthology. Edited by William Harmon, Alice Quinn and Cindee Scott. Columbia University Press. UK distributor John Wiley +44 1243 779777....
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Appointments
University of Leeds Os Finnie, finance director of a company within the Blackwell publishing group, general manager of finance; Jim Parry, dean for student support from August 1, 1998: Robert Sladdin...
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Fellowships
Hertford College, University of Oxford The following have been elected to honorary fellowships of the college: David Daniell, emeritus professor in the University of London, associate member of the...
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Ratings games
THE picture of research excellence in universities risks being distorted by a growing band of "in the know" institutions, which optimise their research ratings through creative "game playing" at the...
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Murder in the bath?
THIS is the photograph that led to two Edinburgh college students being summoned for interview by Lothian and Borders police, writes Olga Wojtas. The project by Linda Dahl for her course in design...
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Donation raises eyebrows in US
GIFTS from US faculty members to their own colleges are unusual but not unheard of, say college fund administrators. American universities are experienced fund-raisers. Capital campaigns routinely...
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Principal gives Pounds 35k to bursary
DUNCAN Rice, principal of Aberdeen University, has put his money where his mouth is with a personal donation of Pounds 35,000 towards the university's new student bursary scheme. The donation, made...
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First impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from two brothers who created a suburban English archetype: "We settle down in our...
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The storm is put back in its teacup
Intellectual Impostures
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On coming and going
Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture
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His life begins at baptism
The Life of Thomas More
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Terror and adulation
I Shall Bear Witness
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The Soviet empire in seven men
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire