Centre defuses ethnic hotspots
Denmark and Germany have launched a unique inter-disciplinary research institute aimed at solving ethnic conflicts in Europe. The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), based in Flensburg,...
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NVQs lift off
Candidate registrations for National Vocational Qualifications increased by 44 per cent to 118,298 for 1995/96, new figures from the RSA Examinations Board reveal. "This is the first sign of...
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Beer money
(Photograph) - Beer money: Middlesex University chaplain Janet Beer took the role of Children in Need mascot Pudsey Bear at the university's meditation group recently. She raised Pounds 340 for the...
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Prehistoric moving picture show
The Cave Beneath The Sea - Chauvet Cave
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Schools of thought
The Learning Game
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Why your youngest are truly revolting
Born To Rebel
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Speaking Volumes: A. J. P. Taylor's Europe, Grandeur and Decline
On A. J. P. Taylor's Europe, Grandeur and Decline . There can be little doubt that the writer who most influenced me intellectually was A. J. P.Taylor. I came under his spell as a teenager watching...
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A kaleidoscope of talents
Walter Oakeshott
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Paper trails to Mozart
Mozart
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File on the rankings
At-a-glance guide to every institution's performance in the 1996 RAE These graphics, prepared by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, show the performance of every institution entered in...
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Media spotlight reaps reward
Media Studies: Westminster University, 1992 rating: 5, 1996 rating: 5 WESTMINSTER University's media studies department got a 5 in 1992 - and found itself the subject of serious media attention,...
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Scratch side steps forward
Biosciences: University of Hertfordshire, 1992 rating: 1, 1996 rating: 2 CHRISTOPHER Atterwill, head of the biosciences department at the University of Hertfordshire, joined the institution in 1990,...
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Economists rise to the challenge
Economics: Birkbeck College, University of London, 1992 rating: 5, 1996 rating: 5 IT MIGHT have suffered the worst ever drubbing in the history of TV's University Challenge earlier this month, but...
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Reach for the stars that became a patent success
Mechanical Engineering: Imperial College, London, 1992 rating: 5, 1996 rating: 5* HEADS would have rolled at the mechanical engineering department of Imperial College, London, if its researchers had...
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The best of times at Oxford ...
History: Oxford, 1992 rating: 4, 1996 rating: 5* Research assessment panels delivered their verdicts on university and college departments throughout the UK this week. A bad grade can close a...