Bullied Blogger: Suspended animation
23 March: I am meeting my union rep today to conclude work on my grievance submission. On my way to work, I call in to see Dr Cumin. I have not been sleeping well for months. My blood pressure was so...
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I have seen lots of reports about a recent decision of the European Court of Justice regarding age discrimination. What did the ECJ decide?
What is the basis of the Age Concern challenge?In 2006, the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations came into force. Age Concern, under the title of Heyday, brought an action in the High Court in...
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Philosophers call for Liverpool v-c to reconsider department closure
Letter-writers claim the university needs to invest in the discipline or distinctive research strengths will be weakened in the UK, writes Melanie Newman
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Gloria Monday: Space – the final straw
Defending one’s territory – one of the most basic of instincts – can arouse passions in even the most docile. Gloria Monday finds ways and means of keeping what she’s got
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Policymaking ‘requires engineering advisers’
Government told to appoint engineering experts, writes Zoë Corbyn
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Two heads to step down
The principal of Royal Holloway and the vice-chancellor of York St John call time on their tenures. Melanie Newman reports
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Kingston showed ‘lack of regard’ for external examiner’s role, says QAA
But agency investigation finds no evidence of widespread problems with standards. Melanie Newman reports
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Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence
Shelley King finds that some things stay the same in an analysis of schooldays then and now
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A Pinnacle of Feeling: American Literature and Presidential Government
Television drama generates the best US presidents. Jed Bartlett (The West Wing) and David Palmer (24) offered a morally righteous alternative to Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. A Pinnacle of Feeling...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, London WC2
1. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin, £9.99 ISBN 97801410400112. The Logic of Life: Uncovering the New Economics of...
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Book of the week: Wars, Guns and Votes
Joanna Lewis gets to grip with the workings of African democracies
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The week in books
Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels by Janet Soskice, university reader in philosophical theology and fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge. Chatto and Windus, £18.99, ISBN...
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Star Trek
A work of science-fiction trivia transports Gary Day to a place lacking in intellectual atmosphere
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Bringing Down the House: The Crisis in Britain's Regional Theatres
This is a book about the history of the Arts Council and an assessment of regional theatre in Britain. Its subject is that much-visited battleground where funding bodies and artists meet to nervously...
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Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East
Samuel Huntington's thesis of a "clash of civilisations", formulated as the Cold War ended, has proved to be one of the most influential ideas in international-relations theory. Among political...