The Independent (London, England) back issues from November 2007:
It's good to talk
Nov 01, 2007 ... Last week's visit by British vice-chancellors to Israel and thePalestinian Territories shows how some good can come out of a badsituation (see Page 6). The threat of a boycott of Israeliuniversities by the UCU lecturers' union had become a diplomaticproblem for this country. But now that ...
diary
Nov 01, 2007 ... The North of England Education Conference will next year be heldin ... Cardiff (right). The conference started as a way to break awayfrom the London-based education mafia. But the organisers found theywere creating another mafia, and alienating Northern Ireland andWales. Occasionally the ...
'I used to laugh it off when I got insulted'
Nov 01, 2007; ... Marie Wold gives her tips for success at work my way Marie Wold is president and co-founder of the IT company OnRelay,which has been short-listed for a World Communication Award in thesame category as BT and Orange. What did you want to be as a child? An ...
'Fish is a passion in the blood'
Nov 01, 2007; ... i want your job ... fishmonger Angela Harrison, 48, runs Pengellys Fishmongers in Looe,Cornwall, with her sister Jackie Provost. They've just beennominated in the 2007 Women of the Year Lunch(www.womenoftheyear.co.uk). What do you actually do? We buy fish directly off ...
A message from Sue Dutton at the Association of Colleges
Nov 01, 2007 ... Around the corner from a cheese shop in London's Covent Garden,some bright spark has scribbled a quote by the American philosopherand designer Buckminster Fuller: "You never change things byfighting existing reality. To change something, build a new modelthat makes the existing model ...
It's all very much music to your ears
Nov 01, 2007 ... Being an audio engineer is a sound job - especially if you likegadgets, writes Hazel Davis recruitment Being paid to sit on your proverbial and listen to Led Zeppelinall day - sounds like a right-wing newspaper headline-grabbing jobif ever there was one. But like any ...
Going greener
Nov 01, 2007 ... You might not see Al Gore hanging out on campus, but FE isteaching many inconvenient truths. By Nick Jackson Further Education Several years ago, nobody would have foreseen Al Gore winning anOscar and a Nobel Peace Prize in the same year. The fact that he hasshows what a hot ...
'My daughter says her teachers are as good as those who win awards. Why do they have awards? Doctors and nurses don't get them'
Nov 01, 2007 ... education quandary Hilary's advice Actually, you're wrong. A new nursing award is in the process ofbeing set up, and there is at least one national award for doctors.Of course, as your daughter says, such things are, essentially,absurd. No one can really be the best ...
In place of a boycott...
Nov 01, 2007 ... Last week, four British vice-chancellors visited Israel tostrengthen ties with its universities and those in the PalestinianTerritories. Could this win Britain new friends in the Middle East?Lucy Hodges reports universities When the university and college lecturers' union, ...
Get ahead of the September surge
Nov 01, 2007 ... Courses beginning in January offer flexibility - and get you intothe job market sooner. By Andy Sharman second-semester starts Ah, autumn: a time for harvest, Hallowe'en and startinguniversity. Well, not for everyone. Although most associateSeptember with the return of ...
DIARY OF A PRIMARY SCHOOL MUM
Nov 01, 2007 ... 'The thought of splitting up my twins makes me hyperventilate' Pushy Mummy top dog was touting tickets for the school socialfundraiser. "Think not what your school can do for you, but what youcan do for your school," she said, wearing a tight smile. It waseasier to surrender than ...
A voice for the stressed-out children
Nov 01, 2007 ... Sir Alfred Aynsley-Green despairs at the 'awfulness' of so manyEnglish pupils' lives - and wants to turn anxious youngsters intohappy and successful adults. Can he make a difference? Hilary Wilcemeets him The man who is the voice of England's children works out of anoffice so ...
'I've always had the wanderlust'
Nov 01, 2007; ... Passed/Failed An education in the life of Rageh Omaar, al-Jazeera presenter Rageh Omaar, 40, is the former BBC world affairs correspondentwho now presents the nightly documentary series Witness on al-Jazeera English. His reporting in the second Gulf War led to hisnickname of ...
quote of the week
Nov 01, 2007 ... "I believe that diplomas could emerge as the jewel in the crownof our education system, ...
These new diplomas won't be second best
Nov 01, 2007 ... comment Contrary to what many newspapers would have us believe, the threenew diplomas announced last week do not mean the end of A-level andGCSE. The number of A-level and GCSE subjects has grownsubstantially in the past 10 years and there are many subjects, suchas accounting, ...
Racism issue must be probed
Nov 01, 2007 ... Sir Keith Ajegbo, author of a government inquiry into how Britishvalues and citizenship should be taught in schools, is right to drawattention to what he calls the "shocking" statistic that Afro-Caribbean boys are three times more likely to be permanentlyexcluded from school as white ...
ChateauTooting
Nov 01, 2007 ... Why leave wine-making to the country folk? Richard Sharp and hissouth London neighbours set out to create the ultimate in localvintage The idea seemed absurd. Like all my best plans, it came to mewhen lying under the pergola in my Tooting garden with a glass ofwine in hand, ...
Virgin territory
Nov 01, 2007 ... He's heir to an airline. So how did Sam Branson feel when he sawfor himself the effects of global warming in the Arctic? By SophieMorris Most 22-year-olds wouldn't let their dads anywhere near theirdiaries, but Sam Branson, on this count at least, doesn't fall intothe category of ...
This time it's personal
Nov 01, 2007 ... Stephen Poliakoff's new TV trilogy draws on a period of socialand sexual change in Britain - and on his own past. He talks to CiarByrne On his first day at pre-prep school, when Stephen Poliakoff wasjust five years old, his teacher asked the class: "All those of youwho have a ...
He's Out There
Nov 01, 2007; ... 'We only put top-end stuff on the wedding list. It's a great wayto worm out the cheapskates' The Cooperman is incredibly happy at the moment. Everything seemsto be going my way and why shouldn't it? Victoria and I have finallyagreed on a wedding date (July 5th 2008) and it's gonna ...
Book Now
Nov 01, 2007 ... Barry Adamson For two nights, the musician and soundtrack composer acts asartist-in-residence at London's Southbank Centre. First, Adamsonperforms his new album, due for release in 2008. Next night, hepresents These Are a Few of My Favourite Themes, featuringsoundtracks, TV ...
Rave on to the vibes of a lyrical city
Nov 01, 2007 ... Literature 24 hour party people Royal Festival Hall london When George Orwell wrote in The Road to Wigan Pier thatManchester was the "belly and guts of the nation", he may just aseasily have been talking of the city's visceral literary traditionas its industrial heritage. 24 ...
Political repression, tangled love and a one-legged parrot who hates goats
Nov 01, 2007 ... The Thursday Book red parrot, wooden leg By Gregorio Kohonkarnac books, Pounds14.99 Order this book (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897 The eponymous parrot arrives part-way through this coming-of-agenovel about two wannabe Argentine writers hanging out in Rio deJaneiro. Leaving ...
1956 THURSDAY 1 NOVEMBER
Nov 01, 2007 ... Premium Bonds go on sale Sir Cuthbert Ackroyd bought the first Premium Bond issued and afurther 5m ...
The Ten Best Diaries
Nov 01, 2007; ... 1 Mum's diary 14.99 Emma Fletcher, a mother of four, designed this chic leather diaryto simplify her hectic life, so each double page, for example, issplit into "My Week" and "Everyone Else's Week". www.mumsoffice.co.uk 2 This Diary Will Change Your Life 10 It's ...
Pop
Nov 01, 2007 ... don mclean Royal Albert Hall london **** "We'll be doing that Madonna hit later on. Maybe she's heretonight, incognito, with a fake beard," says Don McLean, back on aLondon stage after a four-year absence. "America's legendary singer-songwriter" lives up to the introduction, too, ...
Pop
Nov 01, 2007 ... sigur ros Cecil Sharp House london HHHH With the crowd hushed and the band ready, Sigur Rs front-man Jon"Jonsi" Birgisson purred his diffident, Icelandic welcome. "Hello.Thanks for coming. We're just going to play a few songs before thefilm." The four-piece began, aptly enough, ...
Theatre
Nov 01, 2007 ... last easter Birmingham Rep birmingham *** On a virtually non-existent set - benches, stepladder and a fewvotive candles - and with the minimum of props - baguette, puppettree frog, and a syringe of morphine - June and her three chumsundertake a last journey. Bryony Lavery's ...
PAUL RAVEN
Nov 01, 2007 ... Killing Joke bassist Paul Raven, of Killing Joke, was one of the best bass players ofhis generation. The outfit remains a huge influence on thecontemporary rock scene, and their visceral, powerfully dark musichas been covered by Metallica, Foo Fighters, Fear Factory andHelmet, as ...
Brazil defenders win rare praise from Dunga
Nov 01, 2007 ... By Brian Homewoodin Rio de Janeiro Brazil's defenders, usually upstaged by the team's flamboyantforwards, received lavish praise from their coach Dunga when heannounced his squad for next month's World Cup qualifiers yesterday. Brazil, who visit Peru and host Uruguay, have ...
Ipswich boosted by Pounds 44m deal
Nov 01, 2007 ... By Tom Rostance The Ipswich board have agreed a deal to sell a majority stake inthe club to private businessman Marcus Evans. The proposedinvestment will see Evans buy the club's 32m debt, as well asinvesting a further 12m through the issue of new shares. Should contracts be ...
league two
Nov 01, 2007 ... --Hereford United Robbie Threlfall has joined the Bulls on a one-month loan from Liverpool. The 18-year-old will be in contention forthis weekend's home match with Darlington. Manager Graham Turnersigned the player following injuries to defender Dean Beckwith andmidfielder Karl ...
league one
Nov 01, 2007 ... --port vale Chairman Bill Bratt said a new manager could beinstalled at Vale Park in the near future. "A decision will be madenext week," he said. "Dean Glover will remain in charge thisweekend." Caretaker manager Glover remains in contention for the joband is optimistic about his ...
The big question
Nov 01, 2007; ... Just who is Banksy, and what is all the fuss about his work? Why are we asking this now? Although his guerrilla street art has made him one of the mostfeted artists of our time, Banksy's identity has remained somethingof a mystery. His works appear on walls in London, Bristol ...
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Nov 01, 2007 ... 'Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed toextinction he will die ...
Endangered species
Nov 01, 2007 ... The Third Leader Charles Nevin R are species struggling to survive in an increasingly inimicalworld are preying much on our minds presently. Having witnessed theKing of Saudi Arabia and the Queen of England and elsewhere engagedin their elderly, unworldly and curious courtesies, ...
Conflict, restraint and a fresh start
Nov 01, 2007 ... LEADING ARTICLEPoland T he leader of Poland's Civic Platform party, Donald Tusk, saysthat he is well on the way to concluding a coalition deal with thePeasants Party. By the recent post-electoral standards of Centraland Eastern Europe, this is impressive progress. It testifies ...
Our culture promotes bias and inequality
Nov 01, 2007 ... LEADING ARTICLEWomen Cherie Booth's first major public speech since leaving DowningStreet was on a subject that has always been close to her heart:women's rights. The high-flying human rights lawyer and wife of theformer Prime Minister pointed out at Chatham House yesterday ...
Today, we should have been going to the polls - but that was before the revolution
Nov 01, 2007; ... How different the political mood might have been. If Gordon Brownhad called an early election we would probably have been heading forthe polling stations today wondering feverishly whether the newPrime Minister was about to secure an historic victory or be removedfrom Downing Street ...
today's top 20: most amount paid for each home goal scored (2007- 2008)
Nov 01, 2007 ... Which Premier League clubs offer fans the best value for money? In today's top 20 we look at the amount paid by a season ticketholder for each home goal scored so far this campaign. 1 W Ham Cost so far: 194 Seven goals 27.71 per goal 2 Reading 183 Seven goals 26.17 ...
Convenience comes at a (very high) price
Nov 01, 2007; ... Yesterday was a depressing day for small shopkeepers. They mustreally wonder whether this government gives a stuff about theirlivelihoods. We all know that few government ministers travel bypublic transport - and so they can sign up to the misguided beliefthat increased road use is not ...
Pandora
Nov 01, 2007; ... Order! Order! Mick skips dinner to flee to Glasgow It is fair to say that, for some, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia'scontentious state visit to our shores is the political equivalent ofa shit sandwich. First up, the meeting between his foreign secretary Saud al-Faisal and ...
Don't underestimate the Saudis in this pomp
Nov 01, 2007; ... There is something terribly old-fashioned about King Abdullah'sstate visit to Britain and the fuss it has engendered. Old fashionedand wrong. The whole point of state visits is that they are a way ofproviding pomp and ceremony for visits from a whole range ofdisreputable and not-so ...
Quote of the day
Nov 01, 2007 ... 'When Mr Brown came out with the phrase 'British jobs for Britishworkers' ... I ...
Jeremy Kyle, a moral hero of our time
Nov 01, 2007; ... By now, you will know whether Jeremy Kyle woz robbed last night.At the National Television Awards, he was up for Most PopularFactual Programme. To those of you who actually have to work duringthe day, I suppose I should explain what ITV1's agony-a-thon is allabout, and why it deserved to ...
Main movers
Nov 01, 2007 ... AMitchells & Butlers 655.5p (up 40.5p, 6.48 per cent) Reportsthat JP McManus and John Magnier have built a stake APersimmon 1049p (up 51p, 5.11 per cent) Sector rises on updatefrom Taylor Wimpey. ANext 2208p (up 81p, 3.81 per cent) JP Morgan lifts target priceas it expects ...
Premier Oil heats up on takeover rumours
Nov 01, 2007; ... Market Report Oil companies, which have spearheaded the return of takeover chatafter the credit crunch all but shut the rumour mill down, were infocus again yesterday. Investors piled into Premier Oil from theopening bell on talk that Santos, an Australian oil and gasexploration ...
In the shadow of art's giants
Nov 01, 2007 ... Visual arts renaissance siena: art for a city National Gallery london ** Curators are forever rooting around for new ideas for shows. Someideas are fairly obvious because certain artists are such giantpresences, and there is always a good deal more to be said aboutthem and ...
Days like these
Nov 01, 2007 ... 1 november 1987 Alan Bennett writes in his diary: "On the train from Gstaad toMontreux. It is the train panoramique, and since this is Sunday it'scrowded out, with people standing in the aisles. In front of me sitsa man, about 40, French or possibly American, reading a magazine ...
Montgomerie opens fire on Els for missing Masters finale
Nov 01, 2007 ... --golf By James Corriganat Valderrama The Volvo Masters is supposed to be the season-endingextravaganza where the European Tour signs off the campaign with asmile, a hearty farewell and a good old back-slap for the campaign'smost deserving champion. Yeah, right. Try a scowl ...
TEAM CHEMMY
Nov 01, 2007 ... After impressing on a shoe-string budget, a chance encounter at aparty has given the British skier the resources to add gold toglamour By Nick Harris Bankrolling Alcott's blonde ambition If Olympic medals were handed out solely for hard work,enthusiasm and glamour, then ...
ROBERT GOULET
Nov 01, 2007 ... Actor and singer who shot to fame as Lancelot in the originalBroadway production of 'Camelot' The dashing singer and actor Robert Goulet, once described byJudy Garland as "a living eight-by-ten glossy", won overnight famewhen he was cast as Lancelot in the original 1961 ...
KHUN SA
Nov 01, 2007 ... Opium-trafficking 'Prince of Death' He called himself a freedom fighter and, for more than fourdecades, Khun Sa headed a ruthless guerrilla army which he said hewas using to win autonomy for Burma's Shan people. Others were not so convinced. Around the world, drugs ...
Poker By Nic Szeremeta
Nov 01, 2007 ... Another couple of 1m (670,000) prize pools are up for grabs inthe European poker village over the next 10 days. First up is theIrish leg of the PokerStars European Poker Tour at the Jackpot Clubin Dublin. The 8,000 buy-in no limit hold'em affair comes to aconclusion on ...
Chess By Jon Speelman
Nov 01, 2007 ... The European Team Championship is now in full swing in Crete withthe fifth of the nine rounds today and the mid-tournament rest daytomorrow. Unless one of the teams breaks away with a pummelling run, theresult is usually only decided at the very last. However, it ispossible to ...
PROFESSOR DAVID KENDALL
Nov 01, 2007 ... Father of British probability David Kendall was the first Professor of Mathematical Statisticsat Cambridge University and the founding father and grand old man ofBritish probability. Kendall was born in Ripon, Yorkshire in 1918. He attended RiponGrammar School, where he ...
The faces of the day
Nov 01, 2007 ... andy murray One step nearer to Shanghai season finale after Paris win Lewis Hamilton FIA chief Max ...
Picture Post
Nov 01, 2007 ... Heigh-ho: at work with Annie Leibovitz Only in a magic kingdom would Roger Federer be crowned King ofthe Britons. It's a special sort of sorcery, then, that in a newadvertising campaign for Disneyland, the Swiss tennis maestro hasswapped his gym whites for a suit of armour, and his ...
manchester city
Nov 01, 2007 ... Today in the Premier League The defender Micah Richards admitted last week's 6-0 defeat atChelsea was a "wake-up call" for both himself and the ...
liverpool
Nov 01, 2007 ... Today in the Premier League Jamie Carragher remains mystified as to his side's inability toreplicate at Anfield the club's impressive away form. "It isstrange ...
fulham
Nov 01, 2007 ... Today in the Premier League The Crystal Palace striker Shefki Kuqi hopes his performances onloan at Craven Cotttage will be sufficient to earn him a ...
derby county
Nov 01, 2007 ... Manager Billy Davies is reportedly considering a loan bid for theReal Zaragoza midfielder Andres D'Alessandro. The Argentine onlysigned for ...
everton
Nov 01, 2007 ... Today in the Premier League The manager David Moyes said young striker Victor Anichebe is athis best when coming off the substitutes bench late in ...
chelsea
Nov 01, 2007 ... Today in the Premier League Avram Grant hopes to be able to retain the services of ShaunWright-Phillips but warned the midfielder he will not have aguaranteed place in the ...
Bolton Wanderers
Nov 01, 2007 ... Manager Gary Megson is looking to add depth to his squad in theJanuary transfer window. "We have a quality squad, but in terms ofstrength there are not ...