A collegiate casting-out of devilish devices
It was a Thursday afternoon. The college council of the Unseen University, Discworld’s oldest and most venerable school of wizardry, liked their Thursday afternoon meetings.
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Terry Pratchett: A collegiate casting-out of devilish devices
In 2005, Terry Pratchett imagined for THE what the wizards at his Unseen University might do in the face of targets, inspections and research assessment
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Private cash curbs HE access
Canadian universities have become increasingly reliant on private sources of revenue as public-funding cutbacks hit core financing, according to government figures.From 1986 to 2001, state funding...
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Where were you...?
Dorothy S. Zinberg, THES columnist, writes direct from Harvard University Some ten hours after I witnessed the devastation of the World Trade Center on television, moving mechanically from one...
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For the record
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Correction: Elizabeth Hall
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Potato fights blight
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UUK slams 'mean' funding
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War comes home
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American bombing
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Cold war legacy
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From today's UK papers
The Independent Malaria could return to Britain as an endemic disease, scientists at the University of Durham said yesterday when they announced a plan to produce a "risk map" showing which areas...
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