Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an old Etonian who was no relation to Labour's Tony: "We must add to our heritage or lose it, we must grow greater or grow less, we must go forward or backward. I...
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Speaking Volumes: A Room of One's Own
Marion Shaw on Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own . I first read this book in the mid-1960s, soon after I graduated and nearly 40 years after it was first published. I cannot remember who first of...
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Civil disorder as critics arrive
Impolite Learning
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Old facts spiced with a dash of ideology
A New Philosophy of History - An Intelligent Person's Guide to History - On "What is History"? From Carr and Elton to Rorty and White - Beyond the Great Tory
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The proselytes of Prussia
The Politics of Conversion
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Chartering unknown waters
Simon Midgley on a flagship campus contracting scheme. A pioneering contract with a private facilities management company has revolutionised the way a West Country college administers maintenance...
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Leader of the conference trade pack
Simon Midgley looks at how holiday lettings have made Warwick a mint. Last year the University of Warwick earned several million pounds by letting its residential facilities and lecture theatres for...
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Hadland's benefits in using outsiders
* a small core team is able to respond flexibly to university budget variations and pick the right specialists for the job. * certainty of completion. * to enable maximum student intake numbers to be...
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Attractions of a Bovis en suite
Rental income makes student housing an ideal candidate for PFI. Stephen Hoare looks at two case studies. A student accommodation block at the University of Kingston shows what can be achieved if the...
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Appointments
OXFORD CENTRE FOR HEBREW AND JEWISH STUDIES Richard Greenbury, chairman of Marks and Spencer, has been appointed chairman of the board of governors. Bernard Wassester, professor of history, was...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF WALES COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Readership: David Healy, senior lecturer and director of the academic sub-department of psychological medicine in Bangor, North Wales. THE OPEN UNIVERSITY Mike...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND LLD: Sheila McKechnie, director of Shelter, chief executive of the Consumers' Association. MA: Bill Frain in recognition of his contribution to the development of...
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Chairs
TERNOPIL PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE, UKRAINE An honorary professorship has been conferred on Mark Mabey, head of the corporate enterprise centre at the University of Wolverhampton. UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS...
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City of landfall and landfill
BOMBAY: THE CITIES WITHIN By Sharada Dwivedi and Rahul Mehrotra India Book House Pvt Mahalaxmi Chambers, 5th Floor, 22 Bhulabhai Desai Road, Bombay 400 026 335pp, Pounds 40.00 (p+p extra) ISBN 81...
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The University of Abertay Dundee is setting up an alumni association. It has written to 14,000 former students inviting them to join. Membership will be free to anyone with a qualification from UAD...