Prizewinning duo
In my Don's Diary (THES, April 26) I mentioned that I was offering a prize of Pounds 100 for the first person to demonstrate a definite error in my "bare hands" proof of Fermat's last theorem. Then...
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Refounding father
Pakistan, described as the third most corrupt country in the world, needs a saviour. Can Imran Khan and a Gandhiesque film of the country's founder, produced by a Cambridge academic, do the trick?...
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Cambridge on Spielberg's list
British actor Ralph Fiennes has negotiated a $50,000 donation from Steven Spielberg for a visiting lectureship in modern Jewish studies at Cambridge University. Fiennes, who starred in Schindler's...
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Chips thefts eat into budgets
More than Pounds 7 million worth of chips have been stolen from universities and colleges in the past two years, according to the first sector-wide estimates. An estimated Pounds 7.5 million worth of...
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Final rectoring
The English are still not up to speed on the traditions of the ancient Scottish universities, which include a student-elected rector to chair the university court. The new rector of Glasgow...
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Glassy
(Photograph) - Artist John Clark with his finished commission of three stained-glass windows, made to mark the bicentenary of Strathclyde University, now in place in the university's Barony Hall.
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糖心Vlog alone
Wondimu Mekonnen beneath the tree where he slept while working on a PhD at Stirling University. Mr Mekonnen failed his degree and wants the fees paid by the Ethiopian government reimbursed, arguing...
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South Bank ballot
South Bank University staff are being balloted over industrial action following plans to axe jobs. A spokeswoman for lecturers' union Natfhe said action could include an all-out strike, meetings or...
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TGW pay claim
The Transport and General Workers Union representing university manual and ancillary staff has submitted a claim for a minimum pay rate of Pounds 4.26 per hour. According to the union 76 per cent of...
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Kirk to enterprise
The Church of Scotland's education debate last week was enlivened by the tale of the kirk minister who turned up to address a Woman's Guild meeting, and found only three people in the audience. "Did...
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Femmes fiscales
Women of Value
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Noughted by crosses
Asceticism
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Outlook moderate to fair
Strange Attractors
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Family fortunes of Bronze Age mint
The East in the West
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Chemical thugs put the boot into Mother Nature
Pesticides and the Immune System - Our Stolen Future