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Max Lerner
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Is autobiography good research?
Is telling stories about your own life a useful sociological research tool? In a BSA conference paper, sisters Sara and Sue Scott explore how maternal aspirations can be passed on to daughters. Their...
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Sorry, could you repeat that...?
Two typically convoluted examples from papers presented at this year's BSA conference. Roy Boyne, Durham University "What follows from this is that some of the fundamental sociological divides, such...
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The world according to Gates
Why did Bill Gates, the world's richest man, take time off from building his fortune and fighting the US Justice Department to lecture to a bunch of London students? Kam Patel went to find out. A...
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How we can engineer an independent genetics body
Mary Warnock, the woman who chaired the influential inquiry into test-tube babies in the 1980s, makes the case for a Royal Commission on the future of genetic engineering. There has been much talk in...
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Fruitless divisions
Among the variety of subjects encroaching on the borders of sociology, the most intriguing challenge comes from cultural studies, which appears to offer the kind of exciting "activism" in its student...
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Is sociology lost or is it just misunderstood?
As Tony Blair struggles to reshape society, many of those who should be advising him are stuck in a mire of navel-gazing and philosophical jargon. Alison Utley reports. Next week, sociologists from...
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Making a Bang at Bell
A pair of pigeons and an irritating hum led Arno Penzias to discover how the world began. Then he began his second career... Ayala Ochert reports. Half absent-minded professor, half fast-talking New...
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Agony Aunt
My department wants to close a three-year course because of a drop in student demand. The problem is we have about 20 students halfway through the first year. What would be the legal position if we...
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Impressed by 'helpful' staff
David Jobbins reports on the South African connection in the second part of a survey on global student mobility Mncedisi Mayekiso studied at Cape Town before enrolling on an MBA in marketing at the...
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Soros eyes North Korea
Moscow The George Soros-backed Central European University in Budapest is hoping to build on links forged with North Korea to offer masters' courses in economics and international relations to...
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Pounds 7.5 million package to help part-time higher education students
* Scottish secretary Donald Dewar has announced a Pounds 7.5 million package to help part-time higher education students.
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Mandela scholars come to Britain
David Jobbins reports on the South African connection in the second part of a survey on global student mobility Last September, ten South African students arrived in Britain on the first Nelson...
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Union asks for fairer research funding
Lecturers' union Natfhe is pressing for a "fairer" share of research funding for new universities. In a meeting with science minister Lord Sainsbury this week Natfhe said teaching quality could be...
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'Hybrid' model to raise millions
Aberdeen University has launched an ambitious fund-raising campaign to bring in Pounds 150 million in ten years. The "Sixth Century Campaign" has already won pledges of some Pounds 12 million towards...