Deep Thought and delusions of grandeur
One of the fascinating things about observing the effects of computers on people is their effect on so-called computer experts. They do not seem to realise, even as they pontificate on the potentials...
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Open sesame to young minds
Maire Messenger Davies examines TV's effect on children. Just before Christmas there was a lively press debate about a vicar in Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire who told his flock not to encourage their...
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An expansive but walled city
The Macmillan Dictionary of Art
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Woolly tales and sightings of Uranus
The Faber Book of Science
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A negative result
David Edmonds on the campaign to outlaw affirmative action in the US. James Meredith wanted to study at his local state university. But when he sought to enrol there in 1962, President John F....
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Fur, flies and zip codes
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Defining the tools for Foresight job
Ben Gill's article on the Technology Foresight Programme (THES March 24) gives an inaccurate and misleading impression of the process and of the tools which were used to support the panels. Taking...
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France's irritable intellectual
Roland Barthes
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Australia competes on quality
Quality monitoring processes in Australia's public universities have improved markedly over the past 12 months, according to the government's quality audit committee. In its second report since 1993...
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Exchange rate falls
International exchanges of students between the United States and Europe, including Britain, are weakening, according to a new survey. The figures may mark a creeping regionalism in student choices,...
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Splitting image
Alan Ryan asks if America can attend to the difference of its many peoples and still preserve a single ethical, political culture. When I was very much younger, political theory rotated around...
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Taking the debt plunge
The market for lending to universities is buoyant, but finance directors must know how to negotiate the currents, argues Andrew Jordan. To borrow or not to borrow, that is the question . . ." At...
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Star of the big screen
Gail Vines meets Theresa Marteau, a health psychologist committed to exploring the consequences of giving people the information uncovered by genetic testing. Talk to Theresa Marteau about the "...
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Showdown of evasive v. abrasive
The student demonstrations and the French government's capitulation over higher education reform have already been forgotten by politicians in a new storm over illegal phone-tapping. But the problems...
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Keep your huddled masses
'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,' beseeches the inscription on the Statue of Liberty. It is a welcome many in the US would not extend to today's immigrants, whom they see as too...