The toughest job in Britain?
Why is it so difficult to find a great v-c? Look at the job description, writes Stephen Watson, and it's no mystery. The issue of how universities should be led and managed as they evolve into...
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Telling the tale sparks insight
Students' understanding of a subject cannot come from textbooks alone, argues Michael Hyland. A good lower-second essay used to be one in which a student presented all the facts while an upper-second...
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Fellows: on the front line
Pat Leon asks a winner of one of this year's national teaching fellowships how she manages. Name: Barbara Graziosi. Age: 31. Job: Lecturer in classics. Salary: £24,121 Qualifications: BA in literae...
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Today's news
Students no longer need to fear the third degree The third-class degree, once a badge of honour for gentleman scholars, is vanishing from universities. Figures released by Cambridge University showed...
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Horizontal perfidy and the French
Shorn Women
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book about Paris by a Welsh Creole: "'Quite like old times,' the room says. 'Yes?' No?'" * Entries,...
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Mastery of the dainty ankled mistress
Thatcher, Politics and Fantasy
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Tales to bust taboos
Dilemmas of Desire
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Attitudes and aptitudes
Gender Studies - Sexuality and Society - Sex and Gender
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Wild vistas that come in bulk
Wilderness
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Gallic gloire in a North African sandpit
The Sword and the Cross - Sahara
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World of weather, water and windows
The Nature of the Environment
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In the eye of a real tiger
Stormchasers
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Give peace a fighting chance
The New Killing Fields - The Use of Force in UN Peace Operations