Beirut boost after 9/11
The American University of Beirut has unexpectedly benefited from greater interest from the Gulf region after the events of September 11. The AUB has been working hard since Lebanon's civil war ended...
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Kabul head begs UK academe for help
Senior staff at the University of Kabul feel the international academic community should do much more to support their struggle to restore their institution after decades of destruction. Kabul...
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Shuffle cheers Czech rectors
Czech higher education is likely to see a shift in research resources away from old Soviet-style institutes to universities in a shake-up of the education ministry after June's election of a new left...
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Academe's UK stars of future shun Cambridge
Cambridge University has commissioned research to find out why it is suffering a dramatic slump in home applications for postgraduate study. While application rates soar at other leading research...
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Call for consistent standards in postgraduate training
Universities should judge themselves against new postgraduate training benchmarks in a bid to ensure consistent standards across the country, says a review for the funding councils. The report's wide...
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Medics learn to blow whistle
Medical students in the UK must now learn how to blow the whistle on incompetent colleagues. The General Medical Council has published a set of recommendations for medical education that places a...
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Empty bird cage on a rock
The Parthenon
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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 novel by a Nobel laureate born in Lorain, Ohio: "He believed he was safe." The winner receives a £25...
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Fast art of the iconic
Sidney Nolan
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Hard hats, rats and a trap door
Gladiators at The Guildhall - Heart of the City
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Solar power of scarab beetle god
The Cult of Ra
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Posing secular questions for certain zealots
Jihad - Jihad - The Shade of Swords - Inside Al-Qaeda - The Clash of Fundamentalisms
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Premier teeth, pipes and pants
Stabbed in the Front - James Gillray
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Odd, colourful organisms often confused with plants
Lichens of North America
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Laurie Taylor column
Vice-Chancellor's Personal Assistant Vice-Chancellor's Lodge University of Poppleton Poppleton PP12 6HP Siena 16 AUG 2002 Dear Mrs Beamish I have now arrived safely at the Universities UK summer...