Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Heathrow. LOT flight to Warsaw. A strange journey indeed. Read Primo Levi. Reflect on his words about being so preoccupied by power and money that we forget our essential fragility - "...
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Mergers in times of emergency
There can be few industries in which both the employers' bodies and the trade unions are simultaneously contemplating their futures. Further education is one of them. John Akker (THES, March 29)...
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Crumbling certainties
Deng Xiaoping, the so-called "paramount leader" of China, is still presumed to be alive. However, recent reports from Beijing have revealed that any utterance of the patriarch must be "interpreted"...
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Blue wails in sight
Will the Tories, as before, stage an eleventh-hour recovery and snatch victory from Labour's grasp? Ivor Crewe thinks not Last week's emphatic Labour win in the prosperous, middle England...
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From 'Ugg' to an exchange of ideas
How did early man learn to talk? James Hurford discovers that psychologists, anthropologists, linguists and neurologists all have something to say on the subject. What was the origin of human...
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GNVQ success
The number of students aiming for General National Vocational Qualifications and places in higher education grew by 4 per cent last year, a report from the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
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Teacher's vet
The Teacher Training Agency is to develop defined standards of knowledge and skills required in newly-qualified teachers and a system for assessing the effectiveness of teacher training. The...
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University of Central Lancashire
(Photograph) - One way out of funding cuts? Primary school children help the University of Central Lancashire spell out exactly how much money the university has received from the Lottery Sports Fund...
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Reform teeters on the brink
Spanish universities are struggling to broaden their curricula. Rebecca Warden reports from Valencia where the country's rectors drew up their rescue plan and where staff and students at the city's...
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Change exacts a heavy price
Spanish universities are struggling to broaden their curricula. Rebecca Warden reports from Valencia where the country's rectors drew up their rescue plan and where staff and students at the city's...
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Hard work and practical value add up to better graduates
Spanish universities are struggling to broaden their curricula. Rebecca Warden reports from Valencia where the country's rectors drew up their rescue plan and where staff and students at the city's...
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A capital production
The Theatrical City
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A chattering class apart
Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language
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More than drawings and photos
The Other Tradition of Modern Architecture - Studies in Tectonic Culture
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Mother Nature: the classified story
Cultures of Natural History