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Planet sweet or sour?
Ultimate Security: - Scarcity or Abundance?
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Russell takes a positive step
Toward The Principles of Mathematics, 1900-1902
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Sub-human treatment
Animals and Human Society - In the Name of Science - The Covenant of the Wild
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Talking pictures (no vision needed)
Picture Theory
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Croydon schoolteacher who was twice prosecuted for obscenity: "But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence....
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Speaking Volumes: James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar
Kenneth McConkey on James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar. A couple of years ago with the millennium heaving into view, I dreamt of giving up higher education to write a three-volume history of...
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New year honours
Knights Bachelor Professor James Armour, for services to the veterinary profession and education. Michael Bond (professor of psychological medicine and vice principal, University of Glasgow) for...
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Events
INHERITANCE Photographs of three generations of Welsh home and family by Peter Finnemore will be exhibited at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre (January 9-February 20). Details: Jenny Fell, Aberystwyth...
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR Gerwyn Williams, is the first person to win a National Eisteddfod literary competion while a member of the Welsh department. He was awarded the crown in August 1994 for...
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Tall story: the tale of a tail:Books
SEISMOSAURUS: É«ºÐÖ±²¥ EARTH SHAKER BY DAVID D. GILLETTE Columbia University Press, 205pp, Pounds 26.50 ISBN 0 231 07874 9 Americans frequently claim to produce the biggest, fastest or whatever...
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Don's Diary
Monday: Collect 31 forms for the end-of-term feedback. Horrified to discover that they are all the same for lecture courses, practical sessions and tutorials. We are asking students to grade their...
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Shephard raises standard stakes
The Secretary of State for Education told colleges this week that more young people needed to reach "higher levels of achievement". But on the same day, a survey revealed that severe financial...
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First annual report of the Chief Inspector of Further Education Funding Council
The first annual report from the Further Education Funding Council's chief inspector, which involved the inspection of more than 100 colleges, has concluded that the sector is "dynamic, responsive...
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Inspection squads to descend on NCVQ centres
A fully-fledged inspectorate for monitoring standards in workplace vocational qualifications is to be established next April by the National Council for Vocational Qualifications. The NCVQ is...