How to woo students from overseas
WHAT: Harinder Bahra argues that international students are not units of finance to be thrown in with the rest of the student cohort. WHY: A warm welcome on arrival and sensitive support throughout...
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Inspectors' lives after Woodhead
Does anyone know exactly what the assessors are doing? Geoffrey Squires thinks it is about time we asked them. When someone comes to write the history of British education in the late 20th century,...
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Juan, Carlos and Maria learn Welsh
Robert Owen Jones went to Patagonia to save a dying language. Adrian Mourby reports on the resurrection of Welsh after Perón. Robert Owen Jones loves his subject, but even he admits that socio-...
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Maybe it's because of my state of mind
Simon Thurley considers the protean nature of England's capital city Books about London are currently almost two a penny. London's continued economic prosperity and cultural revival seem to be a gold...
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Does my life make social science?
The Turn to Biographical Methods in Social Science
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Field day for reflexive method
Pascalian Meditations
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Know your human rights
Values for a Godless Age
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An alternative version of art
The Oxford History of Western Art
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Practice makes... we are not sure
Thomas Kuhn
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How a sad, anal polymath came to be praised by both left and right
The Cambridge Companion to Weber
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The country en suite, en masse
Twentieth Century British Social Trends
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Misery of being a jobless Brit
Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe
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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 first novel by an American journalist: " And then say what? Say, 'Forget you're hungry, forget you...
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Activating the art of sucking up
Grovelling and Other Vices