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It is not often that the creators of a new opera, before its premi re, come to a university music department and answer questions about it. But that was what happened last month when Sir Harrison...
It is not often that the creators of a new opera, before its premi re, come to a university music department and answer questions about it. But that was what happened last month when Sir Harrison...
In the mid-1600s, two determined Quaker women left their husbands and children behind and set out for Rome. Their extra-ordinary mission was to convert the Pope. Instead they found themselves...
Fraser Watts, lecturer in science and religion at Cambridge University, this week accused two leading biologists, Francis Crick and Richard Dawkins, of using "ideologically-motivated reductionist...
Two colleges began a case at the High Court in London this week to recover Pounds 14 million of European funding from Birmingham City Council. The Birmingham College of Food, Tourism and Creative...
(Photograph) - Poetic justice: Christopher Hogg picked up this slim volume of T. S. Eliot's Prufrock and Other Observations for Pounds 1.50 in a Bournemouth bookshop. It turned out to be an excellent...
Further education employers are set to reopen national negotiations on contracts, but will limit the talks to staff who have refused to transfer to private contracts. The College Employers Forum has...
Neil Merritt, vice chancellor of Portsmouth University, confessed to staff this week that he had been guilty of substantial "errors of judgement" in the way he handled his travel expenses. Mr Merritt...
A social security discussion paper issued in October by the Canadian federal government signals a big change of direction in the funding of post-secondary education. In it, the government says it...
(Photograph) - Dream on: Caroline Pegg in If We Shadows A Midsummer Night's Dream for the 21st century a new production from Insomniac Productions, which opens on November 21 at the Dancehouse...
A new way of reducing the gap between science and the public may have been aired for the first time in London last week. The UK National Consensus Conference on Plant Biotechnology (as reported in...
Joseph Evans argues that more moral control would make university residence a home from home. If charity begins at home, then we should be thinking more about what sort of home we are offering young...
When the officers of our Students Union came to talk to me last week I was struck, not for the first time, by the clarity of their vision and by the significance of their questions. Not for them that...
If the future of book publishing is in peril, humanities academics may turn to the electronic networks. Anita Roy laments the decline of the monograph, below, while Diane Hofkins, right, reports on a...
LANGUAGE TEACHING The following have been appointed to the governing body of the Centre for Information of Language Teaching and Research: Derek Winslow, director and chief executive of Cardiff...
Simon Targett reports from a Malaysian university that is seeking a rapprochement with the western intellectual tradition. The man with the moustache stared into the tinted taxi window with...