Prospect of fool's gold
This year the 16th congress of the International Political Science Association was held in Berlin. The congresses take place every three years with about 2,000 participants from every part of the...
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Painting by numbers?
Controversy over the existence of a canon of great works has long divided the world of literature, yet a similar if less public dispute bisects the world of art. In an attempt to open up this debate...
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Dilemma of kissing cousins
The science of human genetics appears to be taking a "social" turn, with the blessings of Britain's biggest backers of biomedical research. The Medical Research Council has begun to fund studies into...
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Research masters re-routed
The Office of Science and Technology this week dropped its proposal to make a one-year masters' course the first step to postgraduate research training for most students. The proposal was made in...
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Tutu calls for fees waiver
Desmond Tutu, the archbishop of Cape Town, this week called on universities in the developed world to continue to offer free places for South African students . In London to receive an honorary...
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Scots tongue `should not forgot'
The Scots language should be given a statutory legal basis to conserve and promote Scotland's heritage, according to Magnus Fladmark, director of the Robert Gordon University Heritage Unit. Professor...
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A lady fond of dead white males
If the Republicans have an answer to Hillary Clinton, it is Lynne Cheney. As chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities during the Bush regime, she stirred up concerns about political...
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A charm spinning in blood
There are many films which include images of the swastika; in Leni Riefenstahl's notorious Triumph of the Will the city of Nuremberg is transformed into a "swastika world". Less well known, however,...
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Light relief for star gazers
Cambridge astronomers, who have been battling with the sports fraternity over proposed floodlights at the university's new athletics track, have reached a compromise. But a further battle looms over...
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First among equals
Mutual regard appears to be crossing the old binary divide in some profusion among the membership of the Association of Business Schools. At merger time a year or two back, one or two of the more...
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Row flares over Queen's pay-outs
Queen's University Belfast, has been asked by a senior graduate to come clean over the high cost of compensation pay-outs. Alex Attwood, vice chairman of the university's graduate association, said...
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Mixed message on vocational parity
The campaign to win parity of esteem with A levels for vocational qualifications was in jeopardy this week after an international audience of educationists in Brighton. Ministers from different...
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Crash padding
Universities may have trouble coping with the Government's go-stop student number policy, but their spokespeople have adjusted with ease. Two or three autumns ago The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S would have been deluged...
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Trickie Dickies
The latest issue of Scot-Rail's magazine Horizon has a two-page article on how to survive the trauma of entering higher education north of the border. It includes the following canny advice: "If you...
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Teesside tee hee
Never ones to miss out on a craze, the University of Teesside -- the people who brought you adverts in Viz and the peculiar exploits of Teesside Ted and his toilet duck -- have sent out a "Magic Eye...