Belgrade denies visa to Nobel prizewinner
A plan to send a high-profile international academic mission to Belgrade to show support for embattled Serbian academics has collapsed after visas were refused by the Yugoslav government. The...
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Keele asked to pay back books grant
Keele University has been forced to hand back a British Library grant for binding rare mathematics books whose sale has angered academics. The library recalled the Pounds 10,000 grant after Christmas...
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V-cs defend nurse training
University vice-chancellors will this week defend the place of nurse training in higher education following health secretary Frank Dobson's demand for reform. A delegation from the Committee of Vice-...
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Axe over jobs with no link to research
Up to 60 academics may face the axe at a London college in an attempt to boost ratings in the research assessment exercise. Queen Mary and Westfield College is discussing offering voluntary...
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Bill's Starr signs
High Hopes - The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates
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Purge to succeed
The Political Economy of Dictatorship
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Laws of the deep South
The Bondsman's Burden
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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 that focuses on a case of mistaken identity during America's struggle for independence. "It was...
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From Bar to bar-room floor
The Warden
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LBJ revealed and self-exposed
Flawed Giant
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Of prophets and angels
The Cambridge Apostles 1820-1914
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Luddites beware
Mathematics of Derivative Securities
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What ants tell us
Butterfly Economics
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Fanning Japan's discontent
The Ministry
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A 'soft' future of chipped lettuces
New Rules for the New Economy - 10 Ways the Network Economy is Changing Everything