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United StatesProfessor quits in race rowA professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, has resigned from an admissions committee after claiming that officials are breaking rules to admit...
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Kiwi fruits
The University of Auckland may soon become a big draw for UK students, David Baker tells Olga Wojtas
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Appointments
Annabelle Sreberny, professor of global media and communications at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas), has been elected president of the International Association for Media and...
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Freed speech
In an era of media-manipulated ‘reality’, Tara Brabazon is inspired by helping students learn to use oral history techniques to capture genuinely authentic voices
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Resolving employment disputes in the education sector through mediation
By Diane Gilhooley and Michael Ord
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Living the dream
Students' expectations of college life are formed long before they arrive, but blaming them for a lack of realism isn't the answer. Hannah Fearn reports
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Kiss goodbye to freedom
Raymond Geuss foresees a future of strict controls or war over resources. Matthew Reisz meets the radical philosopher and traces his intellectual development
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We're all citizens of Muddleton
Michelle Baddeley discovers our Yucki instincts and Endian tendencies
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Ireland's Misfortune: The Turbulent Life of Kitty O'Shea
I recall at postgraduate seminars at Trinity College Dublin, T. W. Moody, a father of modern Irish history, politely but firmly correcting my reference to "Kitty O'Shea" - "Mrs Katherine O'Shea,...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Manchester
1. Financial Accounting for Decision Makers by Peter Atrill and E.J. McLaney. Pearson Education, £38.99. ISBN 97814058882192. Financial Statement Analysis and Security Valuation by Steven Penman....
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Teach yourself to be a teacher
Help is at hand to ease you into your new lecturing post, promises Greg Garrard
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When is Discrimination Wrong?
Societies routinely discriminate among people. It is done for public safety (individuals under the age of 17 cannot obtain a driver's licence), because resources are scarce (the University of...
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The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
Even after 300 years, the Siege of Vienna by the Ottoman army holds a highly symbolic place in popular historical imagination. Recently, opponents of Turkey's bid to join the European Union invoked...
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Book of the week - The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives
Tony Mann on probably the best book on probability in the world
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The week in books
Everything is Connected by Daniel Barenboim, former Charles Eliot Professor, Harvard University. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £16.99 ISBN 9780297855446"Many who have listened to Barenboim's jumbled...