The insecure scholar: A faint whiff of security
A positive start at a new university makes the possibility of finding the dream job more believable
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Take a number: applications to study rise 23%
Universities call for more funded places as recession intensifies competition for places.
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Catcher revisited
In the aftermath of J. D. Salinger’s death, Robert Segal looks again at the novel that made his reputation, and asks whether it is relevant today
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Two-tier system should replace ‘ramshackle’ university governance
Higher education expert to argue that current system falls between two stools and ‘will not do’. Melanie Newman reports
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‘Independent’ Oxford application exposes system’s weaknesses
First-year student who claimed to have more than ten A-grade A levels suspended while ‘discrepancies’ are investigated. Melanie Newman reports
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OU limits Clubcard fee-payment scheme to first years
Students protest at loss of financial aid. Melanie Newman reports
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Strike threat as job cut talks break down at Leeds
Vice-chancellor maintains compulsory redundancies are a ‘very last resort’
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Book of the week: Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness
John Gilbey is reassured that not always having an answer is normal
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The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror
All terror is "rhetorical", for terror tries to be persuasive. It tries to convince a public to think and feel one thing rather than another. But surrounding the rhetoric of terror comes another...
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The Canon: Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies. By V.F. Perkins
Growing up in the 1980s, how I wished films were an intravenous fix. You can understand how satisfying it was to discover Film as Film, albeit in the years after I finished my BA.Film as Film...
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Anna Seward: A Constructed Life, A Critical Biography
Isobel Grundy welcomes a biography of an independent and long-neglected poet
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Atlantic Gateway: The Port and City of Londonderry since 1700
During the Second World War, the River Foyle, upon whose banks the city of Londonderry stands, was of vital military and strategic importance. At any one time, it was home to more than 100 Allied...
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Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540-1640
Mark Girouard's Elizabethan Architecture is concerned with "the intensely artificial, elaborately composed houses of great people, as artificial as the clothes that encased their inhabitants". It is...
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Elephant In the Boardroom: The Causes of Leadership DerailmentBy Adrian Furnham, professor of psychology, University College London. Palgrave Macmillan, £25.00. ISBN...
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Brand on the run?
Our Deputy Head of Corporate Branding, Christine Hovis, has responded vigorously to a complaint made to the Advertising Standards Authority about our university's branding strategy.Following in the...