Video's star rises over in East London
Job applicants to British universities may soon find face to face interviews have become obsolete after the University of East London successfully conducted an interview with a United States...
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Geoffrey Alderman
Geoffrey Alderman, head of academic development and quality assurance at Middlesex University, is not a member of the quality assessment committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Food for thought
The British Association for the Advancement of Science this week launched its bid to write a youth science White Paper with a public debate on food production at Surrey University. The debate is the...
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Bickerstaffe elected
Rodney Bickerstaffe has been elected general secretary of Unison. Mr Bickerstaffe, who has been an associate general secretary of the union since July 1993, won 151,893 votes in a membership ballot...
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Esteemed nationalism scholar dies
Ernest Gellner was at the height of his influence and leading a remarkable flowering of academic interest in nationalism when he was struck down by an unexpected heart attack at Prague airport on...
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Constitutions are fine, Nolan told
Additional safeguards against impropriety in the running of universities are not necessary, the Nolan Committee was told by university chairmen this week. In recent cases where allegations of...
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THES Internet Service
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper The service is availableon the...
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Final Word ...
This week's Final Word comes from an author born into a wealthy, if parsimonious, family who sketched sympathetic accounts of 19th-century peasant life: "And on a wintry day to go walking through the...
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Frail heroine of Communism
Heart of the Heartless World
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Like us but different
Youth Cultures - Unpopular Cultures - The Language of Youth Subcultures
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Precise facts and frictional characters
Principles of Precision Engineering - Engineering Tribology
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Slaves to the labour saving idea
The Machine in America - Futile Progress - The End of the Future
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The art of noise reduction
Information and Measurement