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Hundreds join the race for inaugural honours
More than 250 entries have been submitted by 111 institutions for ߣߣÊÓƵ's inaugural Leadership and Management Awards, run in association with the Leadership Foundation for Higher...
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Sector pays tribute to the man who reshaped higher education
Peers lament the passing of Lord Dearing, leader of the review that led to tuition fees. John Gill reports
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Daytime TV: Good works
Gary Day on improving tales of tearaway urchins, soaraway barnets and electromagnetic attraction
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Social Sciences Round-up
Technology and Social PowerAuthor: Graeme KirkpatrickEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 192Price: £55.00 and £19.99ISBN 9781403947284 and 7307This book clarifies the place of...
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Hot papers in microbiology, 2006-2008
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators
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Practical knowledge
Although its candidates often lead their fields, the professional doctorate still attracts disdain, and a lack of standardisation does not help. John Gill writes
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This involves what exactly?
Amid the marketing puffery and opaque jargon, many prospectuses fail to explain what a course is really about, students complain. Matthew Reisz looks over the good, the bad and the flannel
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26 February 2009
Absolute value - Denham concentrates minds and budgets
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Rethinking the relationship between feeling and typing
Sainsbury’s is filled with surprises. Jamie Oliver’s visage smiles from most aisles. He is meant to inspire us to care, cook and consume. I must be missing something. From my perspective, he is about...
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Bullied Blogger: Work is dominating my life
16 February: After meeting with Colin Horrocks from the union I am presented with a terrible dilemma. What should I do? He seems to think that I have a case for a grievance or that I should opt for...
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Lord Dearing dies
The man who helped shape the modern higher education landscape has passed away. John Gill reports
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Sara Baartman and The Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography
Kaila Adia Story lauds this powerful effort to reclaim the history of a woman abused by European society
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Against and for CBT: Towards a Constructive Dialogue?
It would be difficult for anyone outside the therapy professions to get their head around this book without knowing something of the politico-economic background that generated it. For at least the...
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Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1945-1950
William Hitchcock's aim is to depict the human face of war and liberation in Europe. His subtitle refers to the misery suffered by civilians who discovered during liberation that the Allies'...