Colleges dismiss grim closure forecasts
The Association for Colleges has dismissed gloomy predictions that one in five colleges could close within three years as a "cynical business exercise". Management consultants KPMG said last week...
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a Croydon schoolteacher who was twice prosecuted for obscenity: "But no, he would not give in. Turning sharply, he walked towards the city's gold phosphorescence....
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Speaking Volumes: James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar
Kenneth McConkey on James Laver's Portraits in Oil and Vinegar. A couple of years ago with the millennium heaving into view, I dreamt of giving up higher education to write a three-volume history of...
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A brave new classical world
The Founders and the Classics:
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A dose of the Celtic medicine men
The Druids
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Bloody knackered, or just extremely tired?
Multilingualism
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Planet sweet or sour?
Ultimate Security: - Scarcity or Abundance?
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Russell takes a positive step
Toward The Principles of Mathematics, 1900-1902
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Sub-human treatment
Animals and Human Society - In the Name of Science - The Covenant of the Wild
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Talking pictures (no vision needed)
Picture Theory
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New year honours
Knights Bachelor Professor James Armour, for services to the veterinary profession and education. Michael Bond (professor of psychological medicine and vice principal, University of Glasgow) for...
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Events
INHERITANCE Photographs of three generations of Welsh home and family by Peter Finnemore will be exhibited at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre (January 9-February 20). Details: Jenny Fell, Aberystwyth...
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Awards
UNIVERSITY OF WALES, BANGOR Gerwyn Williams, is the first person to win a National Eisteddfod literary competion while a member of the Welsh department. He was awarded the crown in August 1994 for...
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Tall story: the tale of a tail:Books
SEISMOSAURUS: THE EARTH SHAKER BY DAVID D. GILLETTE Columbia University Press, 205pp, Pounds 26.50 ISBN 0 231 07874 9 Americans frequently claim to produce the biggest, fastest or whatever...
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Don's Diary
Monday: Collect 31 forms for the end-of-term feedback. Horrified to discover that they are all the same for lecture courses, practical sessions and tutorials. We are asking students to grade their...