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Academics' real-life experiences remind Chris Brink that universities must be grounded in reality
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White Blood: Personal Journeys with Childhood Leukaemia
One in 2,000 children develops leukaemia. Despite improved survival rates over the past 50 years, treatment is painful and stressful. Sadly, even with the latest improved therapies, it is not always...
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Women, Crime and Character: From Moll Flanders to Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Nicola Lacey's book is a version of her 2007 Clarendon Law Lectures; although "expanded", it is shorter, and with a narrower, tighter focus than the usual academic monograph. Her argument...
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It鈥檚 just fiction, says Archbishop
Church leader sets aside the writer鈥檚 theology in favour of his imaginings, says Robin Feuer Miller
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World鈥檚 Greatest Architect: Making, Meaning, and Network Culture
According to the dust jacket, this book contains 鈥渂rilliant essays鈥 creating 鈥減atterns of possibility that allow the reader to see and design one鈥檚 personal connection between each essay鈥. Human...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Liverpool
1 Essentials of Marketing & Companion Website with GradeTracker Student Access Card by Frances Brassington and Stephen PettittPearson Education, 拢36.99ISBN 97814058582812 Access to History:...
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From where I sit - Cancel rehab for battlefield earth
Although John McCain led the charge against "earmarks" - the practice of allocating specific taxes for specific purposes - both candidates for the US presidency went on record against them. I propose...
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Two in a bed shock
Jamie Targett, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, was quick to condemn "the salacious gossip" that followed the revelation in last week's Poppleton Evening News that our vice-chancellor had...
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How duff exams spawn failure
Natural selection is too hard for educators - not the kids, says Tim Birkhead
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Guest leader: Very silly and deeply serious
For three decades, Laurie Taylor has constantly reminded us of our better and freer intellectual selves, says Peter Scott
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Detlef M眉hlberger, 1943-2008
Detlef M眉hlberger, professor of modern German history at Oxford Brookes University, has died of lung cancer at the age of 65.Born in Germany on 6 May 1943, he was immediately caught up in the global...
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Bangor and Oxford universities - Waxing lyrical on mindfulness
The comedian Ruby Wax has revealed that she has learnt to cope with depression by practising "mindfulness" - a technique that combines cognitive behaviour therapy with meditation. Bangor and Oxford...
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Whitehall fails to tap academic resources
Whatever the intentions of the Government, academics and 糖心Vlog in encouraging greater interaction between academics and policymakers ("Still no call from No 10?", 6 November), the...
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A bachelor out of place? 1
I was interested to read of the proposals for new low-cost "Bachelor of Vocational Studies" degrees to be awarded through a proposed National Skills University ("FE colleges plan low-cost degrees at...
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A bachelor out of place 2
At times, we in higher education in the UK seek international comparisons (often from the US) and claim to learn from them. However, we often appear to be splendid isolationists (perhaps when...