Party time
Student numbers in Scottish higher education institutions rose by around 1 per cent in the current session, according to provisional figures from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. There...
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Foot in the door
Richard Wilson, star of the television sitcom One Foot in the Grave, has been elected rector of Glasgow University for the next three years, beating current rector, TV presenter Johnny Ball, by 1,535...
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Welsh watch
Further education in Wales is to come under Commons scrutiny from the select committee on Welsh affairs. The committee, chaired by Gareth Wardell, Labour MP for the Gower and former geography...
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Red starry eyes
After bitterly rejecting communism just a short time ago, Russia and eastern Europe are falling back into its secure and familiar embrace. Harry Shukman explains an unlikely reconciliation. The...
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Projectionist of the past
Following a career in film studies, Liz-Anne Bawden tells Gail Vines how she is now showing a town's memories at Lyme Regis's museum. Liz-Anne Bawden is proof that there really is life after academia...
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To cut a long Tory short
The culture of power without responsibility heralds not only the end of a government but the disintegration of Conservatism, writes John Gray. We know better than to expect resignations these days -...
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Dropout growth rooted in neglect
Universities and colleges need to provide more support for students to combat growing dropout levels, according to a report from the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education. Staying or...
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Fine figures
(Photograph) - Emma Rogers, a third-year on the University of Wolverhampton's BA in ceramics and glass, has won one of the 100 places at the "Ceramic Contemporaries" exhibition at the Victoria and...
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Seismic surname
A stunned welcome to an American scientist who is visiting the United Kingdom this week to talk about his work in seismology - S. G. Schock.
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Shephard calls for vocational drive
The Government has told the new independent careers services to overturn the reputation of vocational qualifications as second-class, and give them parity of esteem with academic qualifications....
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A king of monkish fable?
King Alfred the Great
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Speaking Volumes: Preimplantation Stages of Pregnancy
Anne McLaren on G. E. W. Wolstenhome and M.O'Connor's Preimplantation Stages of Pregnancy . It all began in the Doghouse, aka the Canine Block at the Royal Veterinary College in Camden Town. My...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a playboy of the jazz era :"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." The winner of last week's competition, who identified...
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Sound facts and flimsy covers
International Book Publishing
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Setting fire to reason
The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches