Alf, the cinder fella
Simon Targett reports on how a dispute among medieval historians over the authenticity of King Alfred's biography (Asser's Life) has grown from an argument about burnt cakes into a flaming row about...
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You've come a long way
The Scottish renaissance of the 18th century was a remarkable development. Its original contributions to modern thought deserve the attention they have received. What is less well known is that the...
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It is a forgery
The realisation that The Life of King Alfred is a forgery compiled by a monk in the early 11th century has profound implications not only for our understanding of the historical Alfred - now freed...
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The ascendancy of man
Roger Penrose tells Kam Patel why he thinks human beings will always be cleverer than computers and why we need a new physics Most of us at times will come across some aspect of the physical world...
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Rebel yell at vulgarity
Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko explains to Radhakrishnan Nayar how capitalism has polluted Russian culture At the end of an hour-long interview over breakfast at the Charing Cross Hotel, Yevgeny...
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Er, pause for thought
In our occasional series on first publications, Martyn Kelly talks to Geoffrey Beattie. When I was 11 my world fell apart," wrote psychologist and writer Geoffrey Beattie in his autobiographical work...
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A misconceived agenda
Gavin Fairbairn believes abortion is wrong. The academy, he says, thinks he should stay silent A couple of years ago a student told me how shocked he had been that I had "admitted" to my belief that...
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A disarming chap
It is 50 years since Joseph Rotblat quit the atom bomb project, but this year's Nobel peace prizewinner is still tirelessly campaigning against the menace he once helped to create. Lucy Hodges went...
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Foresight gets praise
Completion of the first stages of the Technology Foresight programme in just two years was a "remarkable achievement" despite "some flaws" in the process, according to the House of Commons science...
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Colleges' cash freed next year
The Government is to drop the mechanism by which a percentage of the grant to further education colleges was withheld to ensure the introduction of new flexible contracts of employment. Education...
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Decision on LSE director
A quality agency for higher education is one step nearer, vice chancellors and principals will hear at their meeting in London today. The membership and terms of reference of a joint planning group...
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Quality teaching premium proposal
English universities are to be asked whether a teaching quality premium should be included in a revised teaching funding formula. The question is included in a consultation document issued this week...
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Working out: Scottish rugby international Gavin Hastings
(Photograph) - Working out: Scottish rugby international Gavin Hastings this week reopened Glasgow University's indoor sports facilities after a 15 month, Pounds 4.5 million refurbishment. The...
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Changes ahead
From January 1996, Noticeboard will change its emphasis to give more space to people in further and higher education in terms of appointments, promotions, honours, awards, fellowships, etc, of...
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Internet News
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESISon the Tuesday before publication. The service...