Exile who came in from the cold
When David Johnson fled South Africa in 1983, he left his heart behind but had no idea of the part he would play in the rebirth of his nation. Now a lecturer at the University of Bristol and an...
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Hail the kings of accountancy age
Charles Leonard argues that UK industry is struggling because it is frightened of taking risks. I was recently interviewed for a senior management post at a university on the south coast but was...
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The ultimate horse opera
Christopher Frayling picks his favourite film - Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West. Sergio Leone's Italian western - his arrivederci to the most distinctive of Hollywood's genres - was made...
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Japan learns web language
Twenty-one-year-old Takehiro Shinkai spends 12 hours a week learning English at a language school in Tokyo and just ten hours a week attending the lectures and workshops which make up the information...
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Degree system for scrapheap
The classified honours degree system should be scrapped, academics and higher education managers have concluded. It is out of step with a mass higher education sector and the need for more explicit...
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Retreat on equality
London University's Birkbeck College has withdrawn an equal opportunities statement in its media studies course material after the Freedom Association complained it smacked of "Orwellian thought...
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Medicinal foods fuel debate
Ethnobotanists are re-examining years of data and revisiting distant indigenous peoples as they discover that information they have collected about medicines has a gaping hole. Ethnobotanists and...
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Two-tone cash call
In successive weeks, the Higher Education Funding Council for England is putting out its major consultation documents on the two main things academics are meant to do - teaching and research. The two...
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Medical review about posts not individuals
Your leader and article on the senior management review at the Medical Research Council (THES, June 14) contained inaccuracies and misconceptions. The reviews of all seven research councils were not...
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Calling on deaf ears
As church congregations shrink and fewer people enter the ministry, some denominations are sharing the training of their clergy. Simon Midgley reports One side of the cross that stands in the grounds...
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Graduate vacancies set to soar once more
The campaign to close Britain's skills gap is sparking a graduate recruitment boom not seen since the halcyon days of the 1980s, writes Simon Targett. The country's major companies are expecting...
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Mersey connects online benefits to public
Pick a house on Brookside Close and discover, at a few clicks of a button, what domestic traumas it has witnessed and how many bodies are buried in the back garden. Alternatively, take a tour of...
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Lined up
And a rather mystifed hello to Warwick University's expert on chaos theory, Professor Series.
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I, Robot
(Photograph) - I, Robot: James O'Gorman, an art and design student at the University of Wales College, Newport, exhibits his humanoid robot at the college's degree show last month.
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Verbs to verse
(Photograph) - Verbs to verse: Karl-Heinz Von Rothenburg teaches Latin with classical music or catchy tunes playing in the background at the Bielefeld Institute for Alternative Teaching and Learning...