Bees knees
(Photograph) - Bees knees: James Hamill, actor and beekeeper, has won a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship worth Pounds 6,000 to study ways of tackling the disease threatening to wipe out Britain's wild...
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Darned mystery
Fifty years after the Red Army fought its way into Hitler's bunker the manner of the Fuhrer's death and the identification of his body remain in dispute. John Erickson recounts the tales of those...
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Hawaii KO
Rick Perlstein explains why the death of Captain Cook in the Pacific islands in 1779 has triggered an academic storm. It is a quintessential historian's whodunnit. It is also, says Berkeley's Stephen...
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Frogs spawn a research success
In the first of an occasional series John Habgood, Archbishop of York, tells Martyn Kelly about his first academic publication in 1950 in the Journal of Physiology. One of the tasks of moral...
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Partners for better not worse
Phil Walkling wants improved quality control of HE in FE colleges. The English higher education funding and quality councils have each recently produced reports on the relationship between higher...
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It's over to you, Maureen
Letter to Maureen for Professor Lapping, University of Poppleton. Please send Ms Williams along to us at the University of Central Lancashire. She might be interested in applying for our Winifred...
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When a refugee is stranded in funding limbo
Changes to overseas student fees and awards rules will exclude asylum seekers, warns Michael Brophy. Given the number of stories and reports in the media about the plight of Rwandan, Bosnian and...
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Derby day for student funding
Students give up fight for free education", is the headline some would have us believe of the National Union of Students education funding review. But a much more considered process is going on...
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Private problems in Cyprus
Cyprus's flourishing private colleges are locked in dispute with government over accreditation of degree courses. After independence from Britain in 1960 the uneasy relationship between the Greek and...
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Queering the pitch
Campaigns for the acceptance of gay rights ironically accomplish exactly what homophobia aims to achieve - the elimination of gays, argues Leo Bersani (right). Gerard Kelly reports. The deliberations...
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A fight to the finish
Steve Fuller asks whether science puts an end to history or history to science? After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, one intrepid ex-Sovietologist decided to project his plight upon the screen...
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Suspect hair, clear vision
Simon Targett talks to an ex-Cabinet minister who is bright enough to teach at Harvard, Shirley Williams. House of Lords. Peers' entrance. An odd place to meet a professor of elective politics, you...
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New centre of attention
We drove home late at night. Fortunately the taxi started at once. No light came from the streetlamps and not much from the few buildings along the road, making driving rather difficult. The driver...
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High ideals into practice do not go
How long will it take for "Nolanism" to enter our political vocabulary? Lord Nolan's report has been widely welcomed outside the house if not in it and its philosophical starting point or watchwords...
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Don's Diary
SATURDAY. Arrive in Toronto having been relayed from Manchester via the retail mecca which is today's Amsterdam Schiphol airport. The weather seems surprisingly mild. Spend the evening making hasty...