Vocational degrees
Elaine Williams reports on a group of Oxford students for whom the academic challenge is not the only test they have to endure. Simon Uttley is one of the University of Oxford's growing number of...
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From academy to acropolis
Richard Clogg looks back at the life of Andreas Papandreou, the urbane Greek academic who became his country's populist prime minister. Andreas Papandreou currently lies in the Onasseion Heart...
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Students struggle to meet national targets
Disturbing projections which cast doubt on the viability of national education and training targets are revealed in a report out this week. The report raises serious questions concerning the revised...
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Three wise rectors
That the heads of three renowned universities effectively representing the great monotheistic religions should choose the period before Christmas to promote the role of academics in building peace...
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A message to Santa
Even the most magnanimous of Santas would be hard pressed to fill the stockings of the increasingly beleaguered scientific community. Thousands of contract researchers would like permanent jobs,...
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Hedonists pollute Christmas spirit
As an Asian Muslim who grew up in northern industrial England, I recall Christmas as a time of exciting films on television and nativity plays at school. I fantasised about being one of the three...
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Final Word...
This week's Final Word comes from a post office clerk's childhood memories of rural life: "As she went on her way, gossamer threads, spun from bush to bush, barricaded her pathway, and as she broke...
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Are your relatives strange or simply replicas?
Eccentric and Bizarre Behaviors
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Burma's pacific Maud Gonne
Freedom from Fear and Other Writings
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Disunited kingdoms
An English Empire
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Fearless in the face of evidence
Galen's Prophecy
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Football fans suffer in government targets
Pleasures and Pastimes In Medieval England - Medieval England
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Liberation theology
The Oxford Illustrated History Of The Crusades
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Muddied claims of a psychosleuth
On Flirtation - Terrors And Experts
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Whole truths false in part
Frontiers of Complexity