The Pick - The Brain Season
Credit: Geoff Tompkinson/Science Photo LibraryThe Brain SeasonBBC Radio 4, from 7 November and through the month"What one 17th-century philosopher disparagingly described as 'a bowl of curds' is now...
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We've taken the test!
Our university has become the first in the country to submit itself to Which? consumer-product testing, which will shortly be extended to all other UK universities.Twelve potential undergraduates...
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Research Intelligence - Bright young things with time to shine
Dale fellowships aim to empower new scholars to ask 'really difficult questions'. Paul Jump reports
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Visa plan a recipe for disaster, the crème de la crème argue
French elite protest harsher attitude to foreign graduates' post-study status. Clea Caulcutt writes
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The week in higher education
• To the list of contributions that higher education has made to UK society, add vomit-inducing two-for-one drinks promotions and the drunks urinating on the high street on a Friday night. Phil...
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Leader: Bread, not political poses
By favouring grandstanding over academics' worries for the profession and their future, the UCU risks irrelevance
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From where I sit - We're scholars, not politicians
The scene is a Bucharest ballroom, decorated in the bronze and purples of vanished empires. Sir Peter Scott, professor of higher education at the Institute of Education, University of London, has...
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Appointments
LaGuardia Community CollegeCatherine ReidCertain she wanted to be a veterinarian from an early age, Catherine Reid's childhood pastimes included giving kidney transplants to her stuffed animals ("all...
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Shine a light on Oxford tutorials so students can get more satisfaction
New humanities head calls for scrutiny of teaching practices ahead of fees rise. Simon Baker reports
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Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts
Author: John HartleyEdition: FourthPublisher: Routledge/Taylor & FrancisPages: 6Price: £65.00 and £16.99ISBN 9780415550758 and 563239Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies was first...
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Student Review: Film and Video Censorship in Modern Britain
Author: Julian PetleyEdition: FirstPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPages: 240Price: £75.00 and £24.99ISBN 9780748625383 and 25390As the British Board of Film Classification will reach its...
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Culture, media & gender studies round-up
In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female CelebrityEditors: Su Holmes and Diane NegraEdition: FirstPublisher: ContinuumPages: 352Price: £65.00 and £19.99ISBN...
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The Madness of Women: Myth and Experience
Author: Jane M. UssherEdition: FirstPublisher: Routledge/Taylor & FrancisPages: 328Price: £44.95 and £19.95ISBN 97804153398 and 39285Written with verve in a polemical style, this book will not...
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Student Review: The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing
Editor: Hugh StevensEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 2Price: £45.00 and £17.99ISBN 9780521888448 and 716574Cambridge Companions are excellent resources in the pursuit of...
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An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education
Editor: Rebecca RogersEdition: SecondPublisher: Routledge/Taylor & FrancisPages: 302Price: £85.00 and £.99ISBN 9780415874281 and 74298Teacher first, researcher second. Educational researchers are...