Not one of them
Historian Jonathan Clark exudes an air of patrician gentility, but the feeling she arouses in his peers are not always so exquisite. Simon Targett talks to a controversial conservative. Jonathan...
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Audit alert
The National Audit Office confirmed on Wednesday that it is monitoring an investigation launched by the Department for Education and Employment's European Social Fund Unit into what the DfEE...
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Quality gripes fail to stick
The Further Education Funding Council handled 26 complaints about the quality of college education last year. Grievances came from parents complaining their children had been wrongly expelled,...
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Son of Zog's man funds Albanian centre
History has had little good to say about the late King Zog of Albania, a politician who contrived to become a monarch in 1928 and was ejected by the Italians in 1939, spending the rest of his life in...
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Steiner's art views fail to sway Scots
A call by philosopher George Steiner for the Edinburgh International Festival to recognise the "intellectual challenge" of science promotes an unnecessarily pessimistic view of the gap between arts...
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Bogus degree scandal discovered
The University of Zululand has just found out that officials have been awarding students false degrees. Now students and management are at loggerheads over how to tackle the fraud. A tip-off two...
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Case for lessons in teaching
A rich vein of discontent with the quality of teaching in universities has been tapped by graduate Anna Tobin. My daughter has just completed a course at Thames Valley University and Anna Tobin's...
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A swing to the bright
Geoff Andrews believes that Tony Blair's new Labour has jettisoned the anti-intellectual prejudices of old. The links between new Labour and intellectuals beyond the party are attracting much...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author who has had much to do with Brazzaville, Yankees and ice cream, but not in this case: "Innocence lay in the muddy compound of the servants' quarters, and...
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Speaking Volumes: As I Lay Dying
Richard Francis on William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying . In my sixth-form days I would go to W. H. Smith's in Crewe most Saturdays to buy a book. The selection was not large, but since I had read...
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A holey trinity
Dictionary of Ethics, Theology and Society
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Appeasing the Luddites
Resistance to New Technology
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Comrades in Christ
Possible Dreams
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Hi-tech, low tech, best tech
Knowing Machines
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Jewel on the Nile
Philo's Alexandria