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Fee-paying students want more teaching contact hours for their money. But do the bald figures on how often they see their tutor tell the whole story? Hannah Fearn investigates
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We've lost those magic moments
The emphasis on learning outcomes and benchmarks in the context of English literature is little more than a straitjacket that stifles the originality and creativity of both author and student critic...
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'Never means never'
Torture cannot be justified, says Philippe Sands, an academic and barrister who has traced how the US came to sanction the practice after 9/11. It doesn't work and it costs us dearly, he tells...
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Selling points
Corporate speak is key to applying for promotion, says Gloria Monday
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Book of the week: Physics of the Impossible
Joseph Silk on our chance to boldly go
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The week in books
Isabella De' Medici: The Glorious Life and Tragic End of a Renaissance Princess by Caroline P. Murphy, associate professor of Renaissance art, University of California, Riverside. Faber and Faber, £...
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The quest for a new New Deal
Howard Davies appraises the sound economic and political sense behind Paul Krugman's latest work
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Guilty Robots, Happy Dogs: The Question of Alien Minds
It's a decent bet that right now there are more guilty "robots" roaming the internet on the lookout for your unguarded e-mail address than there will ever be real robot canines patrolling our homes...
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Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness
Blubberland is Elizabeth Farrelly's name for the state of mind induced by the excesses of the consumer society. It is also a place, usually sprawling outside cities, of shopping malls, gated...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Southampton
1. Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract by Andrew BurrowsOxford University Press, £39.95. ISBN 97804069772672. Law Express: Contract Law by Emily Finch and Stefan FafinskiPearson Education, £9....
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A human among the immortals
Christopher Eyre on an attempt to enliven a history of the pharaonic era with an ordinary girl's life story
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In Defense of Dolphins: The New Moral Frontier
"Swimming with dolphins" regularly tops lists of things that people would like to do before they die. Part of the appeal arises from the popular view of these animals as symbols of intelligence and...
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Gladstone: God and Politics
Alistair Campbell said, "We don't do God", but, as we know, Tony Blair did. Few prime ministers have consciously made their political decisions in the light of their religious beliefs but one who did...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingARCHAEOLOGY- Rome and Environs: An Archaeological GuideBy Filippo Coarelli, professor of Greek and Roman antiquities, University of Perugia, translated by James J. Clauss,...
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Newcastle University - Mutation implicated in eczema
Scientists at Newcastle University have found a gene mutation that is an important cause of eczema and dry skin in children. A faulty version of the gene, filaggrin, causes the condition in 4 per...