In-school training limited
New school-centred initial teacher training schemes have made a "mixed start" and will need to improve to reach the same standard as existing higher education-based courses, inspectors said this week...
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Heavy paper weight
Overworked? Stressed? Burned out? Spare a thought, then, for the social worker disappearing under a mountain of paperwork. The profession's main training body has drawn attention to growing workloads...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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A library of slim volumes with a broad scope
Andrew Marvell - Joseph Conrad - Doris Lessing - William Hazlitt. Introduction by Michael Foot - John Clare - William Golding - Ian McEwan - Walter Pater - Angela Carter - The Sensation Novel - John...
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A motor to defy the mechanic
The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul - Journey to the Centers of the Mind
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A prince not yet the king
New Essays on Hamlet
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A Short History of the Universe, by JosephSilk, W. H. Freeman
(Photograph) - A supernova, the violent outburst caused by the gravitational collapse of a massive star, erupts in July 1987 near the Tarantula nebula. Taken from A Short History of the Universe, by...
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Buddy, can you spare a rhyme?
The Columbia History of American Poetry
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Ideas from thinking ash
How Things Are
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Inside and out
The Mind and Its World - Modern Philosophy of Mind
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The coffee-cup universe
The Universe Explained
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The fallen mighty
The Lost Prime Minister
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a conspicuous 19th-century American author of Norwegian descent: "The advantage of the accredited locutions lies in their reputability; they are reputable because...
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Speaking Volumes: The Presidential Papers
Peter Stead on Norman Mailer's The Presidential Papers. In 1965 I laid out six shillings for a Corgi paperback that was to determine the chief fascination of my professional life. It was a volume of...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Readerships: Stuart Abell, in electronic and magnetic materials; John Fender, in macroeconomics; Colin Greaves, inorganic chemistry; Michael Grimmitt, religion in education;...