Diary
Penzance (and touring nationally)Surfing TommiesIt is 1914 and 15-year-old John Henry Pascoe has just started work in a Cornish tin mine. Then his mentor and friend Jimmy Tamblyn, sacked for...
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The Pick - Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art
Credit: John Lavery, A Rally, 1885, Kelvington Art Gallery and MuseumCourt on Canvas: Tennis in ArtBarber Institute of Fine Arts, University of BirminghamTennis is about class, Englishness, fashion,...
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Honour and Offa
Although our university's decision to charge the full £9,000 fee enjoys the unanimous support of the educationally illiterate group of business executives who make up our Court of Governors, doubts...
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Research intelligence - The bottom line on the research ripple effect
Paul Jump meets the economist working to quantify the value-added contributions of science spending
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The week in higher education
If higher education feels as if it is under a bit of a cloud, look on the bright side - the gloom and doom might mean that you live longer. Research at Yale University suggests that people who were...
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Leader: Case for change yet to convince
When bad news goes global and even good news is inconvenient, the government faces a huge challenge in pushing for reform
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From where I sit - Fundamental particles of recovery
The Republic of Ireland has had a bad run of late. Castigated as one of the "Pigs" (along with Portugal, Greece and Spain), the tell-tale signs of an overheated economy have long since left the...
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Appointments
ESRC Genomics Policy and Research ForumPeter ArnottA playwright has moved from Charles Darwin to genomics in his efforts to bring advances in biological sciences to the attention of a wider audience...
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Reconnecting Marketing to Markets
Editors: Luis Araujo, John Finch and Hans KjellbergEdition: FirstPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 296Price: £60.00 and £24.99ISBN 9780199578061 and 578078Marketing is still a relatively new...
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Student Review: Strategic Management: From Theory to Practice
Author: Allen C. AmasonEdition: FirstPublisher: Routledge/Taylor & FrancisPages: 302Price: £65.00 and £33.99 (paperback and e-book)ISBN 9780415871723 and 1693; and 9780203865835Any student...
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Programming the World Wide Web
Author: Robert W. SebestaEdition: Sixth revised internationalPublisher: Pearson EducationPages: 800Price: £47.99ISBN 9780137053834Everybody should understand the World Wide Web. Everything we do or...
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Student Review: Modeling Software Behavior: A Craftsman's Approach
Author: Paul C. JorgensenEdition: FirstPublisher: CRC Press/Taylor & FrancisPages: 215Price: £57.99ISBN 9781420080759An important aspect of software engineering is the requirement specification....
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A Brief History of Economics: Artful Approaches to the Dismal Science
Author: E. Ray CanterberyEdition: SecondPublisher: World ScientificPages: 560Price: £28.00ISBN 9789814304801As recently as 2007, eminent economists proclaimed that there would never again be a deep...
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Student Review: Economics
Authors: David Begg, Gianluigi Vernasca, Stanley Fischer and Rudiger DornbuschEdition: TenthPublisher: McGraw-Hill EducationPages: 752Price: £51.99ISBN 9780077129521Sprawled daringly across the front...
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Mathematical Connections: A Capstone Course
Author: John B. ConwayEdition: FirstPublisher: American Mathematical SocietyPages: 243Price: £40.95ISBN 9780821849798Mathematics degrees lead students to study some branches of the subject in...