Concrete reasoning
Mary Evans' aesthetic preferences are very much par for the course in terms of the standard aesthetic preferences to be expected of Western academics (Opinion, 4 January). She does not warm to the...
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All against poor policy
It was heartening to see that you have finally come off the fence against the Department for Innovation, University and Skills' attack on adult and part-time higher education by withdrawing public...
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Why we can't turn our backs on the league-table generation
The target-oriented schools system is producing students lacking the basic skills for independent degree-level study, according to many academics. As universities come under increasing pressure to...
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Books of revelation
Inebriated one-night stands, excruciating childhood crushes, entanglements and rows with peers ... What drives some academics, wonders Matthew Reisz, to turn confessional in print.
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Are you reaching those at the back?
Some academics routinely lecture to hundreds of students, but is this still the best way to teach? Tariq Tahir ponders the future of the lecture in an era of mass higher education.
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Top 10 academic bestsellers
Blackwell University Bookshop, The Precinct Centre, Oxford Road, Manchester
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John Graham Pollard, 1929-2007
As an academic he enjoyed international renown in his field, and within the University of Cambridge he was known as a popular and dedicated college man.Graham Pollard, who has died aged 77, had a...
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Intricate tour of heaven
Star Maps
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Painful truth of familiar phrase
Iron Curtain
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A room of one's own in the era of the communal
Privacy and Solitutude
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Gods and laurel leaves
The Roman Triumph
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Hooked on the singer and song
Bob Dylan
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Conquerors of the land of the Fur
The Darfur Sultanate - Darfur's Sorrow
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary
See the Virgin Blest
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Fast and fleeting fame
The Forgotten Prime Minister