Beware the jargon in academic-speak
THIS month the Plain English Campaign announced its list of shame, that is, public bodies and private firms found guilty of providing information that is difficult or impossible for ordinary people...
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Picasso's conscience
Picasso's biographer and friend John Richardson tells Kam Patel how the artist struggled to cope with being so far ahead of his peers and why his misogyny should be seen incontext. When the young...
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Tunnel vision
The Channel tunnel cannot be made safe from terrorism, contends John Adams. So why is the Government refusing to even face the issue? Early promotional literature for the Channel tunnel featured a...
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The real David Marquand stands up
Politician or professor? Brian Brivati talks to the principal of Mansfield College, about new Labour, the new right and his new job. Two of Thatcher's underclass once sledge-hammered my front door. I...
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Whither Scotland's flower?
Is Scotland an integral cultural and economic part of the United Kingdom or would it be better off as an independent state in another, looser, union of European states? Malcolm MacKenzie and Neil...
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US starts archive of whole Web
It is estimated that the Internet contains enough information to fill ten million books. Now there is an effort under way to build a library for all of it. The Internet Archive is working to save a...
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Young Lion makes a meal of CD
LITERATURE ONLINE Chadwyck-Healey, +44 1223 215512, Annual subscription to all available databases for 2-4 users Pounds 15,665+VAT. http://lion. chadwyck.co.uk Literature Online (Lion) is a...
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Science fears for Birkbeck
A projected deficit of more than Pounds 2.6 million at Birkbeck College could signal the abandonment of laboratory-based science and a wave of redundancies, it was claimed this week. The college's...
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Limits to growth
As the research assessment exercise looms, a starred five for lateral thinking is surely in order for the unnamed department in one university which was told its submission was not lengthy enough. It...
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FCO in protest over arrest
The Foreign Office has protested formally to the Nigerian government over the arrest and deportation of a British academic caught up in tensions between Muslims and Christians. Michael Motimoore was...
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Scots keep status quo
Scottish secretary Michael Forsyth has yielded to higher education institutions' pleas for a moratorium on further cuts in the coming year. This week's announcement of Scottish Office spending plans...
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Natfhe hopes for pay breakthrough
THE Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service this week brought higher education staff and employers together for talks on pay, raising union hopes that an improved offer will be made. ACAS...
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Lawyers must dash for Bar meal
DINING in London is to remain compulsory for trainee barristers on courses outside the capital, the Bar Council has ruled. Students on the Bar Vocational Course to be run by institutions as far away...
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All-white team angers black community
EDUCATION ministers are under pressure from racial equality groups to investigate why an all-white team won a research project on multi-ethnic teaching. The African Caribbean Network for Science and...
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Moneybrains of Britain
ACADEMICS are joining the ranks of millionaires as big business rushes to recruit brainpower. Philip Beresford, an expert on Britain's wealthiest people, said: "Anyone who seems to have a half decent...