Voters' cough
Smoking has caused more complicated problems for Birkbeck College philosophers: when someone demanded that their common room be no-smoking they could not decide on how to decide whether it should....
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Beam me up, Scottie
(Photograph) - Beam me up, Scottie: "Ski-Master", Dominic Plumb's award-winning entry in the Royal Society of Arts design awards at Dean Clough, Halifax, combines this stylish ski-hat with an...
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Singing professor
Given the bout of war nostalgia there is an understandable tendency to look back on a period of apparent social solidarity, self-sacrifice and other desirable communal values. But whether regard for...
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TUCing you in
TUC general secretary John Monks has high hopes for the movement's own television show, TUTV. "The TUC has bought space at 5.45am to show programmes designed to appeal to trade union activists," he...
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The glum zone
Dundee University's new departmental handbook reminds us that in 1989, the court decided "to adopt a policy banning smiling in all parts of the university . . . except in areas specifically...
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Quip per quo
No need for the Association of University Teachers to fork out on an expensive after-dinner speaker. General secretary David Triesman is always first to his feet. At last week's AUT conference he...
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Students to get learning vouchers
A voucher funding system for post-16 education and training to create a more student-led market is proposed in a Government-backed consultation paper published this week, writes Tony Tysome. But the...
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Medics on community call
A shift in the teaching of medical students out of universities and into the community was launched this week as the Government proposed changes to its allocation of funds for medical teaching. From...
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Research overheads row hits new peak
Disagreement over who should pay the overheads for charity-funded medical research increased this week as the issue became linked to charities' demands that they should benefit financially from the...
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Envoy soothes union fears
A TUC special envoy is trying to make peace between the two main lecturers' unions after fears of membership wars at universities merging with colleges. Union relations officer Brian Ward was called...
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Banking on success
(Photograph) - Banking on success: Geoff Evans, head of the school of applied sciences at South Bank University, expected to spend this week dealing with the Higher Education Quality Council's...
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Middle class access fear
Europe's universities have been warned they risk barring the middle classes from higher education if they try to bridge the funding gap by increasing tuition fees substantially without tax...
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A fruit salad full of ancient desire
Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature
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All for a good lost clause
The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920-50 - Public and Private Ownership of British Industry, 1820-1990
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Burning passions by the Nile
Love Lyrics of Ancient Egypt