Signing up for the university of life
Putting yourself at the mercy of those you are trying to study may not sound an entirely sensible idea, but Ruth Emond, a teaching fellow from Stirling University's applied social science department...
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New uni bucks decline
Applications for places at De Montfort University are up 18 per cent over the corresponding date last year, the largest percentage rise for any university. It is followed by Warwick, Aston and...
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Failure to go green should be penalised
By 2010, universities and further education colleges that do not meet defined levels of sustainable development in management and curriculum could have their funding council grants withheld. The...
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'Standards' risk appearing meaningless
It may be "pointless" to try to establish nationally recognised degree standards, say experts commissioned by the Quality Assurance Agency. Without better direction from the QAA, the standards may be...
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Porn stars join the conference circuit
Pornography is boosting income at Loughborough University. Delegates staying at Burleigh Court, the university's purpose-built conference centre, are offered a choice of 12 films, costing Pounds 6.95...
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Most vegetable life is there
The Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management
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Solace for the souls of the tortured
The Good Listener: Helen Bamber
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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 novel that owes its success to word-of-mouth recommendations: "Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory...
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Good company despite the lists
The Oxford Companion to English Literature
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Pour l'américaine à Paris
Insiders' French
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Our diseased ancestors
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Paleopathology
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Portrait of a gifted generation
The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945
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Power in twin tongues
Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
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The great and the good - but not the Guevara
Oxford Dictionary of Political Biography
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Tools for an ideas trade
Instruments of Science