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I'll fight on, says Oxford 'moderniser' Oxford University is an "argumentative place", said its vice-chancellor yesterday as he finally admitted defeat over plans to bring in outsiders to run it....
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Today's news
Oxford rejects reform Oxford dons today rejected plans to give outsiders a say in the running of the historic university. A postal ballot of the nearly 4,000 members of Oxford's Congregation resulted...
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Postdoctoral Fellowships: humanities and social sciences
Deadline: 28/02/2007
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New Investigator
Deadline: 16/02/2007
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Today's news
Oxford chief moves to quash speculation John Hood, the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, has moved to quash speculation that he will be forced to resign if his controversial reform plans are...
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In search of rock of ages
Bursting the Limits of Time
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What about that funny handshake?
Freemasonry
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Life and death after Saddam
Insurgency and Counter-Insurgency in Iraq
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Era of gentlemanly capitalism secured jewel in the crown
The Business of Empire
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Ants you'd be pleased to see on the coffee table
Evolution of the Insects
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Race, smoke and suicide, Doctor Strangelove and those bombs
Strategies of Commitment and Other Essays
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is attributed to a slave whose works were later collected by a 14th-century monk: "The things brought by ill...
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Kant get no satisfaction, try iTunes new No 1
Forget classic Beatles songs, Take That's comeback hit and the Party Shuffle playlist. The latest chart-topper on the digital music download website iTunes is a series of lectures on Kant's...
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Young guns ditch old values
Academics are starting to embrace business culture as they scale the career ladder, writes Tony Tysome. A generation gap is opening between a new breed of ambitious young career-minded academics who...