School of African and Oriental Studies
Irina Nikolaeva of the endangered languages academic programme in the department of linguistics has been awarded the 2008 Humanity Award by the Wings WorldQuest organization. Dr Nikolaeva’s work has...
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University of Northampton
Christine Foulkes has been appointed as senior lecturer in social work. She was previously senior manager in community services at Northampton County Council.
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Aston University (Grants and Awards)
The School of Engineering and Applied Science has signed a new memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Defence for the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme. It is one of only five...
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Aston-University
Aston Business School has appointed Katie Barry as postgraduate alumni relations manager, working with the alumni and development office. Â
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University of London
Ian Snowley, currently director of academic services, has been appointed the British Library’s new head of higher education.
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Life in the Old Dons
Our more senior academics responded vigorously to last week's news in Times Higher Education that universities were not allowing dons over the age of 65 to remain in post.
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First Impressions competition: February 28 2008
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a tale about fly-fishing:"Having harbored two sons in the waters of her womb, my mother considers...
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China Rising: Peace, Power and Order in East Asia
Steve Tsang hoped for more enlightenment on how China's ascent will shape our future
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Big ideas: The Essential Guide to the Latest Thinking
James Harkin suggests that big, serious-sounding ideas that are simple enough to be clearly expressed in several paragraphs are fashionable in the global market, as manifested by the spread of ideas-...
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Reading Joyce
Challenging the academic truism that the best criticism avoids subjectivity, David Pierce weaves into his argument a kind of diary about his own book's becoming and his experiences as a teacher,...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Oxford
1. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line by Sudhir Venkatesh. Allen Lane, £18.99. ISBN 97807139999382. The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces both Russia and the West by...
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The Secret Life of Poems: A Poetry Primer
Duncan Wu is beguiled as Tom Paulin coaxes hidden politics, pigswill and tears from well-known verse
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Jews and Europe in the Twenty-First Century: Thinking Jewish
In offering us the distilled essence of interviews he has conducted with prominent Jewish intellectuals, academics and parliamentarians in Western Europe, Nick Lambert presents us with two books in...
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The Business School and the Bottom Line
The Business School and the Bottom Line. By Ken Starkey and Nick Tiratsoo. Cambridge University Press 252pp, £25.00. ISBN 9780521865111. Published 16 August 2007I read this book while doing a circuit...