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Gloria Monday flies the flag for fearless fat slobbery
In the bad old days, sifting would-be students’ painstakingly tarted-up applications was done with blind personal prejudice and ignorance. In one respect, then, little has changed…
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The magazine should be available at your local newsagent and received by subscribers on Thursdays. If you have difficulty finding or receiving a copy of ߣߣÊÓƵ, please contact Greg...
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Student feedback
Collecting student feedback on courses and lecturers needs careful management to ensure accurate, and hopefully positive, data
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Birmingham City University
The honorary award of Doctor of the University has been given to Sir Ken Robinson in recognition of his outstanding contribution in the field of creativity and innovation in business and education.
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Research collaboration
When seeking research partners, it is worth considering junior colleagues, peers with different skills or areas of expertise, and academics from the developing world
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Something for the weekend?
Diverting as this large pack of prophylactic-related data and anecdotes may be, the lack of references is a barrier to Chris McManus's full enjoyment.Condomology has not yet entered the academic...
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Eye Rhymes
Drawing on hitherto unpublished visual material housed in the University of Indiana's Lilly Library and Smith College's Mortimer Rare Book Room, and published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of...
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Red Baron: The Life and Death of an Ace
There are few First World War personalities who still attract as much interest as the German fighter pilot Manfred, Freiherr von Richthofen. Whereas Rene Fonck and William Avery Bishop, highest-...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Newcastle
1. Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod, translated by M.L. WestOxford University Press, £7.99. ISBN 97801928394112. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader edited by Patricia Waugh and Philip RiceHodder...
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The golden notebooks
Anthony Phelan on a rich harvest of insight and riddle from one of Europe's great cultural critics
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In Praise of Prejudice
The title of this book is misleading in two ways. First, it is not simply devoted to the praise of prejudice but differentiates between what its author terms "good" and "bad" prejudice. Second, the...
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Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts
At the heart of this clear and elegantly written book is one of the central questions that has faced anyone practising or teaching in any of the major art forms during the past century. As Caroline...
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The Book of the Week: Violence by Slavoj Žižek
The Žižek variations: Julian Baggini on the bravura art of repetition.
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The Week in Books
The Second Plane - September 11: 2001-2007 by Martin Amis, professor of creative writing, University of Manchester. Jonathan Cape, £12.99 ISBN 9780224076104"It was not the slaughter of 11th September...