Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Oxford
1. Mathematics for IGCSE by David Rayner. Oxford University Press, £16.25. ISBN 97801991499402. English Grammar in Use: A Self-study Reference and Practice Book for Intermediate Students of English...
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Behind every great artist ..
Alison Yarrington gleans much from a glimpse into the domestic lives of Cezanne, Monet and Rodin
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Complaint
Some years ago, I found myself having a drink with a young woman who had recently taken up a job as researcher on a well-known Radio 4 programme. She seemed more confident than most people at that...
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Contraception: A History
Contraception: A History sets out a broad overview of this complex and complicated subject. As others have done before, Robert Jutte (in an English translation by Vicky Russell) dispels the myth that...
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ARTS AND DESIGN- Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and ResearchEdited by Steve Garner, senior lecturer in the department of design and innovation, The Open University. Intellect Books, £...
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From where I sit - A sad loss of literacy Down Under
University lecturers in ߣߣÊÓƵ are seeing increasing numbers of students who lack what were once considered basic literacy skills.Last semester, I taught a first-year communications unit at...
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Battling Granny takes the honours
Our university made the local and national papers last week with the news that it had awarded a joint BA Honours degree in Psychology and Medieval Studies to 137-year-old Winifred Armitage.Winifred,...
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Noddy management
Treat your staff to lashings of 1940s-style good sense and you jolly well won't go far wrong, advises Blyton devotee Sally Feldman
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Coming down to earth
Alan Ryan says growing disparity in graduate premiums doesn't bode well for HEIs
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Off Piste: Grand masters of vinyl
Prog rock devotee Greg Walker takes an affectionate look at an intelligent and gloriously ambitious genre, and asks us to celebrate the era when rock's dinosaurs roamed the Earth
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Guest leader: The real sting of the QAA whip
Attacks on the grading system will not improve standards but will harm the UK's reputation, claims Malcolm Grant
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Michael Baxandall, 1933-2008
Michael Baxandall, widely considered one of the finest postwar art historians, died on 12 August at the age of 74. He was born in Cardiff on 18 August 1933 into a family steeped in the world of...
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University of Oxford - MBA student targets US market
Students from poorer families in America could find it easier to access higher education thanks to a new funding initiative devised by MBA student Scott Patterson, based at the University of Oxford's...
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Where excellence shines through 1
As ever, my old friend Kevin Sharpe in his opinion article harks back to a non-existent golden age of academia ("A lighter weight of paper", 28 August).A recent perusal of several PhDs published in...
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Where excellence shines through 2
Kevin Sharpe asserts that the requirement for PhDs to make an original contribution to knowledge "has gone even from elite universities" and is being replaced "in many institutions" with a need to...