Student Review: Essential ENT
Author: Rogan J. CorbridgeEdition: SecondPublisher: Hodder ArnoldPages: 224Price: £26.99ISBN: 9781444117950Before acquiring a new textbook, an undergraduate medical student may have already had a few...
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Understanding Medical Research: The Studies That Shaped Medicine
Editor: John A. GoodfellowEdition: FirstPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPages: 392Price: £25.99ISBN: 9780470654484Medical knowledge is advancing unbelievably quickly, and medical practice has...
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Medicine round-up
Parasitology for Medical and Clinical Laboratory ProfessionalsAuthor: John W. RidleyEdition: FirstPublisher: CengagePages: 316Price: £39.99ISBN: 9781435448162John Ridley takes complex topics and...
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Understanding Conflict Resolution
Author: Peter WallensteenEdition: ThirdPublisher: SagePages: 360Price: £80.00 and £26.99ISBN: 9780857020499 and 0505Like Tolstoy’s unhappy families, each country experiencing armed conflict suffers...
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Politics and International Relations round-up
ߣߣƵ and the Middle East: A Front-line RelationshipEditor: Fethi MansouriEdition: SecondPublisher: I.B. TaurisPages: 2Price: £25.00ISBN: 9781848859685From the insular “White ߣߣƵ” ideology...
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Student Review: African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors
Author: Todd J. MossEdition: SecondPublisher: Lynne RiennerPages: 285Price: £21.50ISBN: 9781588267696For those approaching the subject for the first time, the vast scope of elements involved in...
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Student Review: Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives
Editors: Des Freedman and Daya Kishan ThussuEdition: FirstPublisher: SagePages: 336Price: £75.00 and £26.99ISBN: 9781446201572 and 1589After their 2003 book for Sage, War and the Media: Reporting...
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Dissatisfied?
Stefan Collini is, and he thinks you should be, too. He explains to Matthew Reisz why universities must not pander to students, business or the government and instead defend their own distinctive...
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Offa's 'nuclear option' is an illusory concept (1 of 2)
Among the coverage of the appointment of a new Office for Fair Access director ("Cable to make selection panel an Offa it can't refuse", 16 February), it is said that Les Ebdon has threatened to use...
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Offa's 'nuclear option' is an illusory concept (2 of 2)
The vilification of Les Ebdon in some sections of the press, in opposition to his appointment as director of Offa, is ill-informed, completely unjustified and highly damaging to the causes of...
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You get what you pay for
John Gill, in his leader ("Something has got to give", 16 February), raises the point that English students who will be paying tuition fees of £9,000 a year from September will expect the teaching...
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Wholly effective
The letters by Robin Parker and by Sally Hunt ("Fear of failure?", 16 February) on the Review of Higher Education Governance in Scotland, chaired by Ferdinand von Prondzynski, point to the need for a...
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A levels are A-OK
In response to the article "Do not throw that IB pearl away, richer than the impoverished A level" (9 February), I say, look to the extended project, vice-chancellors, not the IB: there you will find...
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Polyglots go free
While I wholeheartedly agree with Tony Chafer's views on the decline of language degrees ("Mind our languages", 16 February), he has missed one relevant fact: students who go abroad on the Erasmus...
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Unnatural disaster
Malcolm Gillies, the vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, reports a "tsunami of late applications" as the reason why London Met is facing a fine of up to £6 million from the Higher...