First-class degrees on wane
THE NUMBER of students gaining top honours is falling, according to statistics published today. But the male/female divide remains, with 7.7 per cent of male students who achieved degrees in 1995/96...
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Trinity's new master
THE PRIME minister has appointed the first Indian academic to head an Oxbridge college, writes Harriet Swain. Amartya Sen, professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University, will become...
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions, the competition in which you have to identify a book from its opening line, comes from a dandy who took part in the Napoleonic campaigns: "On 15 May 1796 General...
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The science of getting it wrong
Yes, We Have No Neutrons
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Lost window of opportunity
Laboratory Earth
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A major, a martyr, a train station
Beyond the Frontier
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An era seen through a squint of despair
Encyclopedia of The United States in the Twentieth Century
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The Grimm splendour of a grand hotel
The Fontana History of Germany 1780-1914
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Occupied with a clash of symbols
Literacy and Script Reform in Occupation Japan
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Stars, bars and charting rhythms
America on Record
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Speaking Volumes: John Boyd Orr's Food and the People
On John Boyd Orr's Food and the People. I am an inveterate peruser of secondhand booksellers' catalogues and it was through one nearly 20 years ago that I bought a copy of Sir John Boyd Orr's Food...
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The search for nirvana
How Buddhism Began
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Appointments
European Science Foundation Enric Banda, professor and former Spanish secretary of state for universities and research, will succeed Peter Fricker as secretary general in June 1998. University of...
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Fellowships
The Royal Society Fellows Christopher Bate, reader in the department of zoology, University of Cambridge; John Brady, BP professor of information engineering in the University of Oxford; Michael...
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Honorary degrees
University of East Anglia LittD: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, vice chancellor of the university since 1995; John Fowles, author of The Magus and The Collector who has lectured on several occasions in the...