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 Microsoft supplement Published in The Times Higher on October 13 2006  !magine a bright future  David Jobbins examines the threats, challenges and opportunities ahead for IT and computing studies...
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A levels no real preparation for university, say students More than 40 per cent of students believe that A levels failed to prepare them adequately for the demands of a university degree, college...
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Public Engagement: small awards
Deadline: 20/10/2006
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Overdue but cloudy view
Satyajit Ray's 'The Chess Players' and Postcolonial Theory - Apu and After
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Questions of cultural superiority can muddle mathematical thinking
A History of Mathematics
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Brain waves from the sea
In Search of Memory
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a dictator who was assassinated: "The whole of Gaul is divided into threeparts, one of which...
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Missing crucial monkey business
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development
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Tools that cobbled together our faiths
Six Impossible Things before Breakfast
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Sensational visions of self
Seeing Red
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Minds met at neuron junction
Nerve Endings, the Discovery of the Synapse
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Our heavenly bodies make for hot dates
Astronomy
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Spinning yarns from the East
Silk and Empire
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Crumbling campuses face £5bn repair bill
Many buildings 'at serious risk of major failure'. Jessica Shepherd reports. Almost a third of university buildings in England are unfit for use or are in need of repair, a report for the Government...
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How e-mail blunder made talks redundant
It was bad enough to receive an e-mail warning that they were facing the threat of compulsory redundancy. But further misery was heaped on five academics at Nottingham Trent University when the...