Pay rise poses dilemma for Bolton staff
Workers to vote on whether to take final 2.5 per cent of last year’s national pay award as v-c warns that increase will cause job losses. Melanie Newman reports
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FoI request opens can of worms over London Met’s dropout rate
Hefce figures for non-completions 13 times higher than university data. Melanie Newman reports
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Veil: Mirror of Identity
Julia Droeber finds thinly veiled orientalism in an analysis of Muslim values and Western liberalism
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Felt
Key "felt" into the search engine of an online bookseller and a plethora of "how to" and craft books will pop up. Instruction manuals have their place but the surfeit of knick-knack projects, raw...
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The Canon: The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 By Eamon Duffy
It used to be an open secret that most historians of Christianity had axes to grind - partisans fighting their confessional corners, ecumenists trying to spread peace and love, non-believers out to...
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Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Account
A proselytising book assumes much about world poverty but answers little, writes Radha D'Souza
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The Unfinished Game
For (Luck) your science finds no measuring rods," wrote Dante Alighieri in the Inferno (in Dorothy L. Sayers' translation). For most of the history of humanity, few would have disagreed. Luck, or...
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Cruelty: Human Evil and the Human Brain
A review of a book on human cruelty is a daunting and anxiety-provoking task. Listening to news broadcasts on any given day, one is confronted with examples of the myriad ways in which humans can...
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Book of the week: Mothers and Others
Camilla Power finds emotional modernity is the legacy of co-operative breeding
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The week in books
Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe by Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach professor of world order studies, Columbia University. Penguin, £12.99, ISBN 9780141011929"It was always a source of...
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Published this week
ART AND DESIGN- Travel, Space, ArchitectureEdited by Jilly Traganou, assistant professor of art and design, New School, and Miodrag Mitrasinovic, associate professor of communication design, New...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Edinburgh
1 Creation or Evolution: Do We Have to Choose? by Denis AlexanderMonarch, £10.99ISBN 97818542474692 Sex, Drugs and Chocolate: The Science of Pleasure by Paul C. MartinHarperCollins, £16.99ISBN...
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'Disgraceful' trio quit group to pursue their own bid
Coalition hoping to run teaching masters was left hanging by lead partners. Melanie Newman writes
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Original features
Although what is now the University of Chichester was granted degree-awarding powers only in 1999, it can trace its origins back to 1839, when William Otter, Bishop of Chichester, issued an appeal...
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News in brief
Data protectionBreach earns official reproachThe personal records of more than 1,700 students, including details of some students' disabilities, were mistakenly sent out in an email by the University...