Best defence
Christina Preston reports on a Chilean initiative to enrich and protect oral cultures through a multimedia network for teacher training in the country's poorest areas. The Mapuche Indian tribes in...
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The new model university for the Millenium
Ray Cowell argues that seminal developments in recent years amount to re-inventing the role of institutions. The international debate on the future of higher education ranges over a perplexing number...
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Grants
NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY. Research contracts: Professor C. Ferguson, Pounds 80,628 from the DoE (sampling strategies); Dr G. Sanders, Pounds 257,700 from the DoE (effect of air pollution on crops...
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Catching the wave of opportunity
The Council for Industry and ÌÇÐÄVlog publishes its advice to the Shephard review today. Patrick Coldstream summarises its report. More young people than ever before now believe that it is...
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A major, a martyr, a train station
Beyond the Frontier
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Parasites at the root of records
An Introduction to Database Systems
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Power plays and sister acts
David Walker talks to Partha Dasgupta (right), the Cambridge economist who has focused on the third world's economic dynamos: women. Squatting; cooking; suckling; spinning; water-carrying; herding;...
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A select gathering
Measuring the Mind
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Family of man dividedover in-laws
Did modern humansevolve from Neanderthals or wipe them out? Olga Wojtas sifts the latest archaeological evidence For almost the whole of this century, there has been a heated scientific debate about...
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Beveridge retreaded
Last week in Prague, at a meeting organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, experts from the World Bank and the London c states to policy makers from 15 central and eastern...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Charities. Dr J. Franklin, Pounds 66,159 from West Midlands Health (hormone receptor expression and function in human pituitary tumours); Drs Nicholl and Ramsden, Professor A...
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Sawing off the limbs we are standing on
World Resources 1994-1995 - People and the Environment: - The World at the Crossroads - The Gnat is Older than Man - Blueprint Three - Development and Environment: - The Ecology of Commerce
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The Earth as lab
Scientists are increasingly confident that they can pinpoint the culprits of global warming, says Stephen Schneider Awareness that pollution can degrade our environment is hardly new. That was...
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Operation Overload in the shadow of the Somme
Information-warfare offers the prospect of a bloodless victory. Lawrence Freedman asks whether war without death is possible. We have on offer visions of a cyber-war with "logic bombs" and "high...
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The big squeeze
Institutions must wake up to pressures on space, says Paul Roebuck. Universities have been behaving as if the rise in student numbers was akin to an invasion of lemmings. They have paid scant...