Ed Byrne: Consolidated gains
4 October 2012 Ed Byrne recommends international collaboration between institutions to achieve excellence - Australians have taken to the idea like a duck- billed platypus to water Australia takes...
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Picking up the peaces
Michael Prest listens to frustrated UN general-secretary Boutros Boutros-Ghali give Oxford's Cyril Foster lecture. Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the Egyptian secretary-general of the United Nations, is a...
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Tiger burning bright
Now that the dust has settled on the Malaysian general election it is possible to take stock of how the country is faring in its race to join that highly successful group known as the tigers of the...
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Cutting costs at a stroke abroad
Frank Booty investigates how Europe's heritage is being digitised in Asia and the Caribbean. What have Euromoney magazine, HMSO publications, The Bible in English, Diploma of Achievement student book...
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Bosses and boffins pact
Ronald Amann welcomes the unique opportunities the new funding culture creates for research, particularly in the social sciences. In 1852, Sir Lyon Playfair, then a lecturer in chemistry in the newly...
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War cancelled due to lack of interest
The Fifty Years War:
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Loaves, fishes and cereal yields
Tim Dyson argues that despite the explosion in world population, it will not outpace food production. Newspapers and television often give considerable coverage to those who argue that the world's...
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Software founders in postmodern age
Software has become too complex and even accidentally killed people. The way ahead is to produce simpler, user-friendly technology, argues Patrick Hall. I have practised as a software engineer for...
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Terra infirma
A royal commission has just concluded that we do not know much about the ground beneath our feet. Kam Patel unearths some disturbing facts about soil, and three experts explain why its degradation...
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Tongue twisting and yod-dropping
The Cambridge History of the English Language
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Less than Olympian Greeks
The Greek World - Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology - The Greeks
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The modernisation of mass murder
Confronting The Nazi Past - So Haben Wir Das Reich Verspielt - A History of Fascism 1914-45
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East is a cultural Eden
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Rudyard Kipling was thinking of Europe and Asia when he wrote these verses. I quote them not just in continued amazement at what...
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Sources for research funding in 1998
Each month this section will list funds available for academic researchers. Details should be submitted to research@thesis.co.uk EUROPEAN UNION www.cordis.lu and www.echo.lu www.europa.eu. int/comm/...
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The sound in the symbol
The World's Writing Systems - The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Writing Systems - The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System