Don's Diary
Sunday I am in Slovenia on a British Council sponsored teaching week. My mission, to lecture to students at the University of Ljubljana on British cultural history, literature and popular culture. On...
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Northern nostalgia for school dinners
LIKE most politicians, I am a very emotional person. I say this not because I am innately soppy. Indeed, any product of Lancashire County Council school meals in the 1960s is made of strong stuff. If...
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White paper hints at car parking levy
USERS of university or college car parks may face a new charge as a result of the transport white paper. While business premises will be targeted, a Department of Transport spokesman said other urban...
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Clampdown on RAE
THE higher education funding councils are to crack down on manipulation of the research assessment exercise by institutes that have identified how to optimise their research ratings. However there...
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RAE consultation has spawned two more consultations for health related research
The RAE consultation has spawned two more consultations for health-related research. Colin Smith, who chairs the British Medical Association's medical academic staff committee, has said that an...
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Scientists launch meteorite search
Copenhagen University scientists are leading a Danish expedition in Greenland to search for fragments of a meteorite that crashed to the ground last December and which could help solve some mysteries...
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Ofsted report attacks 'sloppy' research
Education research in the United Kingdom is "disturbingly sloppy and partisan" and the Pounds 70 million of public money it costs could be put to better use with a huge rationalisation of research...
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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, is taken from a novel by a religious Greek politician that was later turned into a film...
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Orwell's every word
The Complete Works of George Orwell
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... in black, white, red and green
George Orwell
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Speaking Volumes: The World Turned Upside Down
On Christopher Hill's The World Turned Upside Down Which single book has meant most to me, intellectually? The truest response, for anyone who retains pretensions to mental vivacity, is: whatever one...
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Calvinist provocation
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
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Collage of a great artist
The Picasso Papers
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Seeing red among the white coats
Molecules of Emotion
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Creative account of scientific imagery
Insights of Genius