US state colleges in 'crisis'
United States. Financial insecurity, a sense of lost mission, and a wave of public criticism from the political right are fueling talk of a crisis at state colleges in the United States. The...
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Oxford research job jitters
A survey of 500 contract re-searchers at Oxford University has uncovered "serious and damaging shortcomings" in their employment. According to the Association of University Teachers, Oxford received...
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Mounted police always get their 'radicals'
Canada. A student's curiosity has led him to break open a file revealing that the University of Saskatchewan in Canada was the subject of undercover surveillance for over 50 years. In the summer of...
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New currency proves worth
As new university allocations loom, Peter Knight unveils his list of those best funded for teaching in 1994/95 It is a legitimate question of public policy to want to know which university is well...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who once drove an ice-cream van and worked in a funeral parlour: "Then the back door slammed and my mother marched in on a gust of wind, the knot of her...
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Tree-huggers and nature's muggers
Nature's Keepers
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The epidemiological zoo
Plague's Progress
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A semi-detached view of life
Scholarship Boy
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Mothers for the fatherland
Master Race - The Origins of Nazi Genocide
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Movers and shakers
Race and Culture
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The belaced and the beliced
Gender, Sex and Subordination in England 1500-1800 - The Prospect Before Her
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Crucial disturbers of whiggish order
Women on the Margins
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All about Eve and the Virgin
Medieval Women
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The hidden hand of market forces?
Solitary Pleasures
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With a flourish of the pen
Effeminate England