Terms of no endearment
Ursula Riniker (THES, September 13) seems to imagine that poor employment terms in United Kingdom universities are confined to foreign language assistants. In fact, they apply to the growing numbers...
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Big wheels of justice
Academics are increasingly used as expert witnesses. But when esoteric debate spills over from classroom to courtroom, tempers can fray, as Martha Nussbaum and John Finnis discovered (below). John...
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Dial link gives access to Janet
A nationwide dial-up service will soon allow all universities and research councils to access the academic research computer network Janet. The service will be provided by Warrington-based Internet...
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Under wraps
(Photograph) - Under wraps: 1,600 work places in the library at Sheffield Hallam University's Pounds 14 million Adsetts Centre will be wired for information technology. The centre will be formally...
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A star-spangled spanner
Labour and Society in Britain and the USA - Labour and Society in Britain and the USA
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Victorian novel with a stake in Whitby: "Van Helsing summed it all up as he said, with our boy on his knee:- 'We want no proofs; we ask none to believe us! This...
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A knight recalls his days
Not Entitled
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Battle over the little big ones
To Change Them Forever - Education for Extinction - They Called it Prairie Light
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Canny humanist meets sweaty racist
David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter with Africa
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Deep insight on an African despot
The Diary of Hamman Yaji
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Dots on the conceptual map
Modernisms
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Emperor to caliph
Byzantium East, Latin West - Imperial Legacy - Suleyman the Magnificent and his Age - The Reluctant Emperor - Byzantium, The Decline and Fall - Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni, 1081...
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Heroism limited
Lee - Robert E. Lee
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Land of open glory
We Should Know Better