Crowe's feat
So how much has changed in the US in the 30 years since the foundation of London University's Institute of United States Studies, celebrated this week with a party at the US ambassador's Regent's...
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Fixed-terms deter the best
University teaching quality may be suffering because of problems associated with increasing numbers of fixed-term contracts, says the Association of University Teachers. The union held the inaugural...
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Respect due to British innovators
Innovation should become an academic field with its own professorships and institutes, a leading industrialist said this week. While schemes to solve the United Kingdom's old problem of poor...
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Glasgow reveals Irn constitution
The stiff upper lip has achieved particular rigidity in Glasgow, according to a United States researcher investigating the health beliefs of different ethnic groups. Carolyn Fong, professor of...
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Taxing tasks for static cabbies
A student at Universite Laval is completing a study on the occupational hazards faced by taxi drivers. Cedric Plante, a masters student in the department of community health at the Quebec university...
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Wolf is in the art studio
The painful results of the years of high inflation have been affecting academic institutions for some time. The backlog of those years of the nation's financial imbalance has now arrived with a...
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Quality chiefs prefer secrecy
Reports on universities' and colleges' quality assurance arrangements should not be made public and institutions should set their own standards, quality chiefs have proposed. The results of...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a film director who believed that we all have our reasons: "As I bid farewell to the landscape of my childhood I think of Gabrielle. Certainly it was she who...
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Speaking Volumes: Florence Nightingale to her Nurses
Jenifer Wilson-Barnet on Florence Nightingale's Florence Nightingale to her Nurses . These letters to the probationers and nurses at St. Thomas' (written between 1830 and 1900) are less well known...
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Art despite formulae
Guru Dutt
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Blithe cutting spirit
David Lean
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Catastrophe as a matter of choice
The Politics of Environmental Discourse
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Correction
The manuscript map mentioned in "The Vinland Saga" (THES, June 21), was purportedly drawn in about ad 1440, not ad 440, as published. We regret the proof-reading error.
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Fancy a romance in the foyer?
The British Cinema Source Book - Gaumont British Cinemas
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Filming in fear of the final edit
Beyond the Stars - Eisenstein