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Psychology at Work - The Psychology of Work and Human Performance
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Babel and psychobabble
The Ascent of Babel
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Higher channels
John Davies scans the schedules. (All times pm unless stated.) Pick of the week So it is finally over. Jeremy Isaacs's 24-part Cold War series, made at the behest of CNN owner Ted Turner, reaches its...
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Why are both these paintings modernist?
Modernism is a response to modern social and political conditions, says art historian Tim Clark. So how come both David's Death of Marat, painted in 1793, and Jackson Pollock's works qualify as...
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Chinese exchange wins commercial support
Graduate schools might eventually be built at Manchester University and Tsinghua University, Beijing. The universities are establishing an international research programme with commercial backing,...
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Middlesex tailors MBA to fit Chinese economy
When lecturers at Middlesex University Business School conceived of an MA in Chinese management, they had in mind students from western countries who wanted to do business in China. They realised...
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Nottingham funds physics switch with Shanghai
Jacket potatoes from the canteen are the worst thing about He Jiabao's exchange visit to Nottingham University. Jiabao, 20, is one of four physics students from Fudan University, Shanghai, spending a...
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Shi Jing Qian's vision of China
In his latest book, which explores how the West has viewed China since the time of Marco Polo, Jonathan Spence describes each glimpse of "Chan's Great Continent" as a "sighting". He borrows this term...
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Entering the dragon
British academics are struggling to catch up with their US and ߣߣÊÓƵn rivals in the race to exploit a potentially lucrative Chinese market opening up to the West. Harriet Swain reports China does...
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Thai girl, 14, good teeth ... $2K
From the forests of Brazil to the suburbs of Paris, slavery is big business - million people big. Kevin Bales reports Recently I interviewed a young woman I'll call Seba. This animated 22-year-old...
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Writing on the wall for goddesses
We live in an age of pictures rather than words. The result? Assertive women and a return to Goddess worship. Leonard Shlain reports On a tour of Mediterranean archaeological sites a few years ago, I...
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External examiners treated 'with shameful disdain'
More than 17 per cent of external examiners are paid less than the Pounds 3.60 hourly minimum wage, according to a survey by the Association of University Teachers. Lowest payments go to PhD...
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Historians split on their home base
Historians bidding for a new subject centre are struggling to unite all sections of their discipline. With a month to go before bids have to be in for the Pounds 30 million funding councils' scheme...
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Thames Valley schools braced for job losses decision
Thames Valley University staff fear that up to 30 lecturing jobs could be lost with the closure of the European, International and Social Studies School. The EISS is just one of the casualties of the...