Postgraduate pool set to dry up as feverish coalition feels the heat
High student debt and higher costs will discourage applicants from further study, with disastrous consequences, argues Gareth Thomas
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Oil on troubled waters
Calm down Vince: Lord Browne is ready to kick-start the stuttering engine of university reform. Rob Cuthbert imagines the possibilities
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Business & management round-up
The Marketing Century: How Marketing Drives Business and Shapes SocietyEditor: Jeremy KourdiEdition: FirstPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPages: 280Price: £19.99ISBN 9780470660157Drawing on input...
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Computer science round-up
Software Engineering: Modern ApproachesAuthors: Eric J. Braude and Michael E. BernsteinEdition: Second revisedPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPages: 782Price: £46.99ISBN 9780471692089Fully revised...
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Economics round-up
Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel DataAuthor: Jeffrey M. WooldridgeEdition: SecondPublisher: MIT PressPages: 1,096Price: £49.95ISBN 9780262232586This second edition aims to offer a...
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Mathematics & Physics round-up
Asymptotic Analysis of Differential EquationsAuthor: Roscoe WhiteEdition: SecondPublisher: Imperial College PressPages: 432Price: £74.00 and £36.00ISBN 9781848166073 and 6080White offers the...
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Nursing round-up
Fundamental Aspects of Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues in NursingAuthors: Sally Carvalho, Maggie Reeves and Jacquie OrfordEdition: SecondPublisher: Quay BooksPages: 112Price: £15.99ISBN...
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Philosophy round-up
Deleuzian Concepts: Philosophy, Colonization, PoliticsAuthor: Paul PattonEdition: FirstPublisher: Stanford University PressPages: 2Price: £56.50 and £22.50ISBN 9780804768771 and 8788Patton discusses...
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Social sciences round-up
Archaeology: An IntroductionAuthors: Kevin Greene and Tom MooreEdition: FifthPublisher: Routledge/Taylor & FrancisPages: 416Price: £70.00 and £24.99ISBN 9780415496384 and 6391This text considers...
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Everyman's library of failure
It is easier than ever to self-publish. But, says Tim Luckhurst, it still carries a stigma of being a last resort for deluded dimwits
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Diary
Penzance (and touring nationally)Surfing TommiesIt is 1914 and 15-year-old John Henry Pascoe has just started work in a Cornish tin mine. Then his mentor and friend Jimmy Tamblyn, sacked for...
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The Pick - Court on Canvas: Tennis in Art
Credit: John Lavery, A Rally, 1885, Kelvington Art Gallery and MuseumCourt on Canvas: Tennis in ArtBarber Institute of Fine Arts, University of BirminghamTennis is about class, Englishness, fashion,...
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Honour and Offa
Although our university's decision to charge the full £9,000 fee enjoys the unanimous support of the educationally illiterate group of business executives who make up our Court of Governors, doubts...
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Policy debate needs considered questions (1 of 4)
We need constructive discussion of ways to get government higher education policy out of its current muddle ("Fears that Willetts' hellish week may leave debate in limbo", 19 May). However, it would...
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Policy debate needs considered questions (2 of 4)
It is time for the government to be more bold about university fees. British students who have benefited from private education should perhaps be charged non-European Union fee rates. In some of...