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From paper to data
Susan Whitfield once worried that her 'techie' research would hinder her career. As a showcase conference opens, she asks universities to reward digital work in the arts Paper and printing,...
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Mapping the Irish famine
Historians can be reluctant to use maps - despite the availability of computer tech-niques. But in 1991, staff at Queen's University, Belfast, started converting census statistics for Ireland into...
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Collected whispers of a curious club
UK academics have neglected the history of the freemasons. Andrew Prescott wants to use computers to map the spread of this very British organisation I have just started working on the history of...
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Higher channels
John Davies scrutinises the schedules. (All times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Ten years ago, Rupert Murdoch's Fox network nurtured the birth of The Simpsons, one of the highest collective...
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University of Cape Town:Confronting the past
The University of Cape Town began anticipating the South African revolution long before most institutions in the country. Its previous vice-chancellor, Stuart Saunders, began opening up the campus to...
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A kiss and tell story
Power peck to tongue in cheek, Harriet Swain examines the history of the kiss. In one of the final moments of the Italian film classic Cinema Paradiso, the hero watches, spliced together, his...
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Between good and evil
Andre Brink is helping to rear his black maid's child. Her life, he tells Jennifer Wallace, encapsulates South Africa's tensions - explored in his new novel. The University of Cape Town. A collection...
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Material girl
(Photograph) - Material girl: textile student Jemma Hughes-Mead relaxes on her cushions at Winchester School of Art degree show. Photograph by RUSSELL SACHS
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Unesco welcomes bank links
PARIS Higher education has never been higher on the international development agenda, Unesco director general Kochiro Matsuura told international donors and other agencies this week. Mr Matsuura was...
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Sources for research funding
Each week this section lists funds available to academic researchers. Items for inclusion should be submitted to: research@thes.co.uk EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION www.esf.org/social/sp/TERM/term2g.htm...
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Rio de Janeiro
Teaching staff at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and the Universidade Federal Fluminense are on strike in protest against the federal government's continuing refusal to enter negotiations...
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Belgrade
Serbian education minister Milovoje Simonvic was killed in a traffic accident last week on a motorway near Velika Plana. Mr Simonovic was a member of the Yugoslav United Left party, which is headed...
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Prague
Charles University students are profiting from their knowledge of law school entrance exams by selling answers to would-be students. Detailed answers to the thick book of possible questions given by...
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Scientists in the dock
In France, scientific error has become a matter for the courts. Wendy Barnaby asks if British scientists can be similarly tried At a recent Royal Society meeting, the Director General of the Ecole...