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Forget the cultural stuff, just give them the lingo
Languages are threatened by a new perception of them as just a skill for getting a job, says Michael Kelly Few people doubt the value of learning foreign languages. Surveys show that about 85 per...
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The CIA's role in Animal Farm
The impact of the cold war and the shady role of the United States's Central Intelligence Agency in the production of Animal Farm, Britain's first feature-length animated film, was discussed by...
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Left professors seize chance to overturn Jurassic economy
Left-of-centre professors and academicians are seizing their first chance in nearly a decade to propose radical solutions to Russia's economic ills. Former dissidents, social democrats and reformist...
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MM 2001: War without risk
Modern warfare can be a 'political entertainment' in which little is chanced, or a hell where civilians, not armies, are targeted. Mary Kaldor explains The 18th and 19th centuries were periods of...
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Big demand for English lessons
STUDENTS in South Korea are learning more about the west as part of their country's Saegaewha, or "Greater Globalisation", programme. English language, western business and other international...
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Supremo in science plea
Sir William Stewart, former chief scientific adviser to the Cabinet Office, has called for a full-time Scottish chief scientific adviser "with clout" to ensure that science and technology north of...
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Culture collections clubbed together
The Government has placed responsibility for the United Kingdom's numerous collections of cultures and micro-organisms in the hands of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. The...
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Globalisation and after
The Cultural Crisis of the Firm - Pattern in Corporate Evolution
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'Closed' centre launches new MSc
A postgraduate centre, effectively closed by Edinburgh University in 1996, has launched the first MSc course of the third millennium, a stone's-throw from its former premises. The Centre for Human...
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Charging up the engines of development
Northern Ireland's two universities suffer the region's twin disadvantages of political and economic difficulties. But, as Olga Wojtas and Noel McAdam report, their v-cs promise to transform them...
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Estates of the nation
Universities are hatching ambitious plans involving property disposals, relocations, new buildings and higher usage. Gordon Hood reports The 1990s have seen some of the most dynamic shifts to...
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Analysis: Mixed report for class of '92
Ten years on from the end of binary divide in higher education, Claire Sanders assesses the successes and failures of new universities in a united sector Ten years ago Liverpool Polytechnic declined...
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Scots get Pounds 7.5m to develop facilities
The reclamation of "brownfield" sites, the economics of renewable energy sources, high-tech materials for medical uses, and food hygiene and nutrition are among 17 projects backed by the Scottish...
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Realising the dream
Human nature being what it is, we may live in a new world but we react in ways shaped by an old one. New visions may inspire but getting there is hard. So found Harold Wilson 30 years ago as his...