Quality street for the masses
How will welfare work? Universities, Bahram Bekhradnia points out, already have difficulties taking more students from poor families Ministers have made clear that one of their major concerns is to...
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The colour of ivory towers
Fifty years after the arrival of the Windrush heralded an era of black immigration, Lola Young (right) reflects on how blacks have fared in the liberal world of academe. Work is, as always,...
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A new fabric of reality?
Are today's scientists no better than the priests of the Inquisition, who forced Galileo to declare that his scientific theory was not a description of reality but merely an observation of...
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Lonely as a spy
Evidence that the poet Wordsworth spied on the French has been around for years but no one has, until now, pieced the facts together. Kenneth Johnston explains. Was the English Romantic poet William...
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'New wars'
Conflict is dead, long live the capitalist. Mary Kaldor tells Kate Worsley a new type of war is emerging Mary Kaldor, Jean Monnet reader in contemporary European studies at Sussex University, was...
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Conflict is dead, long live the capitalist
Historians' fears of a major European conflict are mistaken, argues Mark Mazower. But as Mary Kaldor (right) tells Kate Worsley a new type of war is emerging Historians shy away from optimism. We...
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How will welfare work?
Will Gordon Brown's tight grip on public spending end academics' love-in with Labour, asks David Walker in the first of a series on social exclusion. Universities, Bahram Bekhradnia (right) points...
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Honorary degrees
University of Manchester DMus: John Tomlinson, operatic bass. DSc: Leslie Turnberg, emeritus professor of medicine, former president of the Royal College of Physicians. LLD: Anna Ford, news...
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Grants
University of Birmingham Research grants Dr A. Coulson, Pounds 93,534 from the Economic and Social Research Council (OB approach to client/contractor relationships in British local authorities); Dr N...
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Appointments
Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh James Petrie, professor of clinical pharmacology and head of the department of medicine and therapeutics at the University of Aberdeen, has been elected...
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Top brass
(Photograph) - University of Leeds music department hosted the CHAIN international brass week earlier this month. The CHAIN network has brought together more than 20 conservatoires and music...
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Today's tribes
(Photograph) - A young punk displays his, or her, clan markings in Decorated Skin. Fashion theory, magic, cannibals and claims that society can shape the mind, all in Anthropology Books, pages 24-28...
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Fact file
Of the two million students funded by the Further Education Funding Council, only: 1 per cent were on access to higher education courses 4 per cent were on GNVQ courses 17 per cent were on A-level...
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Oxford uses Internet to extend student base
Oxford University is expanding its department for continuing education in an effort to reach students further afield. From January 1999 new courses will include two undergraduate courses in computing...
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London makes bid to attract foreign students
Marketing body Learning in London, established by 16 London universities and colleges, was launched last week with support from business group London First to attract overseas students to the city.