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Still sometimes a great nation
A rich portrait of a country at the crossroads offers Richard King a sense of where it might be headed
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Edward Carpenter: A Life of Liberty and Love
If the alternative leftist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries were to trace themselves back to a spiritual forefather, Edward Carpenter (1844-1929) would be waiting there, philosophically, up...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Portsmouth
1. Marketing by Paul Bains, Chris Fill and Kelly Page. Oxford University Press, £35.99. ISBN 97801992904372. Operations Management by Nigel Slack, Stuart Chambers and Robert Johnston. Pearson...
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Ancient crucibles of civic ideals
According to a legend that was prevalent in 12th-century monastic circles, when the tomb of Plato was found his corpse "bore on its breast a golden tablet inscribed, 'I believe in the Christ who will...
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Her Oxford
The University of Oxford was in no hurry to admit women students. When 21 young women took up residence at Somerville and Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) in 1879, the university took no official notice of...
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Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet
Concern over the reliability of information offered on the internet pervades higher education. Although the benefits of the internet are universally applauded, we are struggling to establish...
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The week in books
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life by Gerald Martin, senior research professor in the Caribbean Studies Centre, London Metropolitan University. Bloomsbury, £25.00, ISBN 9780747594765"Gabriel Garcia...
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Book of the week: The Earth after Us
We will leave behind just a small footprint, learns Michael Benton
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FILM STUDIES- A Feminine Cinematics: Luce Irigaray, Women and FilmBy Caroline Bainbridge, reader in visual culture, Roehampton University. Palgrave Macmillan, £50.00. ISBN 9780230553484Drawing on the...
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From where I sit - A table for continental tastes
A common attitude to league tables of international universities was summed up by Valerie Pecresse, France's Higher Education Minister, when she stammered in fury last February that the problem with...
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Vice-Chancellor will replace Kant
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has enthusiastically backed the recent assertion by Sheila Gupta, Human Resources Director at the University of Edinburgh, that it is vital...
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Who funds equal access?
Sally Feldman says the responsibility for financing disabled students is unclear
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Leader: A suitable subject for teaching?
If alternative medicine can't produce scientific evidence of its efficacy, should universities be offering courses in it?An estimated 20 per cent of the UK population uses complementary and...
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John Maxwell Turner, OBE, 1937-2008
John Maxwell Turner, OBE, long-serving vice-principal of what is now Writtle College, has died.Mr Turner was born in Huddersfield on 5 June 1937 to Dorothy and Max Duncan Turner, an architect. He was...