Force-feeding of hunger-striking suffragettes
June Purvis challenges assumptions that the force-feeding of hunger-striking suffragettes was merely extremely unpleasant.
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Could the sun set in the East?
Talk of 'miracles' in the hot house economies of the Far East is inflated, argues Gerald Segal. Indeed, these 'Tigers' may soon be having trouble paying for pensions There is something about an...
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Outrage as Bard moves house
Plans to transfer the renowned Arden Shakespeare series from Routledge to school textbook publisher Thomas Nelson have outraged Bard scholars. The move could precipitate an avalanche of resignations...
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Cost cutting
The British Library is to stop the in-house publication of research project results to save money from September 30. The move frees money for research following a 13 per cent grant cut for 1996/97. A...
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Listening learning bank
(Photograph) - David Blunkett, shadow education spokesman, called for smartcards and accounts at the TUC conference
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Federal Wales faces role row
The University of Wales is bracing itself for a new internal wrangle over its federal role. Heads of some of its largest and most influential constituent institutions are backing calls for another...
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A payslip too far for an impoverished professor
Ekpo Ekpeyong, one of Nigeria's leading professors of medicine, was torn between a crucial emergency meeting of the university teachers' union and lecturing his final-year students. An apolitical...
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Bright sparks
Fears that students are failing to learn basic skills appear to be confirmed by an unsuccessful charity stunt at Aberdeen University. The students planned to walk over hot coals to raise funds for...
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Bad dream
(Photograph) - Bad dream: A woman stands holding examples of aborigine artwork after torrential rain ruined homes near Mt Stanley, Australia. The decision to uphold Eddie Mabo's ancestral claim to...
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India's expert trade
D. School - India
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In search of obscure Judes
Dons and Workers
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The female in tuition
School for Women
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Child-centred learning, 1632
Comenius - World Brain - Panorthosia or Universal Reform
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Persuasive advocates of art and language
Powers of Being - The Polemics of Imagination
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Tectonic efficiency
Fluids in the Crust - Subduction Zone Magmatism