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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week So it is finally over. Jeremy Isaacs's 24-part Cold War series, made at the behest of CNN owner Ted Turner, reaches its...
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Why are both these paintings modernist?
Modernism is a response to modern social and political conditions, says art historian Tim Clark. So how come both David's Death of Marat, painted in 1793, and Jackson Pollock's works qualify as...
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Chinese exchange wins commercial support
Graduate schools might eventually be built at Manchester University and Tsinghua University, Beijing. The universities are establishing an international research programme with commercial backing,...
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Middlesex tailors MBA to fit Chinese economy
When lecturers at Middlesex University Business School conceived of an MA in Chinese management, they had in mind students from western countries who wanted to do business in China. They realised...
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Nottingham funds physics switch with Shanghai
Jacket potatoes from the canteen are the worst thing about He Jiabao's exchange visit to Nottingham University. Jiabao, 20, is one of four physics students from Fudan University, Shanghai, spending a...
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Shi Jing Qian's vision of China
In his latest book, which explores how the West has viewed China since the time of Marco Polo, Jonathan Spence describes each glimpse of "Chan's Great Continent" as a "sighting". He borrows this term...
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Entering the dragon
British academics are struggling to catch up with their US and Australian rivals in the race to exploit a potentially lucrative Chinese market opening up to the West. Harriet Swain reports China does...
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Thai girl, 14, good teeth ... $2K
From the forests of Brazil to the suburbs of Paris, slavery is big business - million people big. Kevin Bales reports Recently I interviewed a young woman I'll call Seba. This animated 22-year-old...
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Writing on the wall for goddesses
We live in an age of pictures rather than words. The result? Assertive women and a return to Goddess worship. Leonard Shlain reports On a tour of Mediterranean archaeological sites a few years ago, I...
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Leader brings manifesto for change to CVCP
Howard Newby, chairman elect of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals, will take over the job in interesting times. The Bett committee will just have delivered expensive recommendations...
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Bulgarians flock to Vienna
VIENNA Bulgarians now constitute the largest number of foreign students at one of Austria's largest universities. Out of a total student population of 22,000 at the University of Economics in Vienna...
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French develop abbey habit
PARIS French students are discovering that the best way to improve their exam grades is to shut themselves away with monks. As the distractions of everyday life become harder to resist, a stay in an...
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Ireland acts over high-tech skills shortage
DUBLIN The Irish government has announced an initiative aimed at heading off potential skill shortages in the information technology sector. An additional 5,400 higher education places will be...
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Agony aunt
Q. My department is using more and more computer-aided learning and I detect that some of my students are becoming bored with pointing and clicking. How can this be avoided? A. Peter Murray-Rust,...