Noteworthy cause
If musical accompaniment is an essential element in all decent crusades, possibly the least surprising announcement of the year is that the Campaign for Free Education is planning a CD to raise funds...
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Clean bowled
Far be it from us to suggest that the Department for Trade and Industry's Exporting Education bulletin is handing out disinformation. But anyone who has been to both Hackney and Singapore will find...
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Northern light
Paul Clark, the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England's director of quality, has been appointed director of teaching and learning for the Scottish ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council. Dr Clark...
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On a roll
(Photograph) - Courses in gaming are booming in the United States, drawing students not only from across America but from the Pacific Rim, Sweden and even the United Kingdom. Lecturers say they are...
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Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - In this image the telescope was set to pick up the green emissions from iron XII ions, which are common at a temperature of 1.5 million Kelvin.
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Orbit gambit
(Photograph) - Orange-emitting helium II ions are formed at about 70,000 K. Such emissions are blotted out by the earth's atmosphere. On the bottom left a plume stretches far into space.
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Heaven and helium
(Photograph) - As part of Sheffield Hallam University's Elastic Frontiers Festival, fine-art student Tatjana Kovachevic used helium filled balloons to decorate the city's Victorian cemetery. She...
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Stage-managed
(Photograph) - Students on the theatre design degree course at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design are competing to produce the best stage design for the Birmingham Royal Ballet's new...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a novelist with an entomological bent: "Growing quieter and communicating almost unconsciously through glances, they thought that it would soon be time, too, to find...
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Speaking Volumes: The Road to Serfdom
John Blundell on Friedrich Hayek's The Road to Serfdom . I stumbled on to Hayek's book by accident. I saw a reference to it by George Orwell: "This book should be read by everybody" he commanded. I...
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Alphabetical portrait of the artist
James Joyce A to Z
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Feminine complaints
The Harvard Guide to Women's Health
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Plenty of scopes for success
Directory of British Scientific Instrument Makers 1550-1851
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Dynasties and nasty deaths
Chronicle of the Roman Emperors
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Iceman cometh through the window
Archaeology