The ability to analyse easy texts comes only after rigorous work on difficult ones. Diane Purkiss explains why Oxford students outperform those bred on a diet of pick 'n' mix. Students, as we all...
Although political radicalism has waned in UK universities since the 1960s, Chris Bunting discovers that some students are far from apathetic about issues of a more global nature. More than a quarter...
Debt coexists with designer clothes and mobile phones. Student accommodation standards are rising, but more are choosing to live at home. Political radicalism has waned, but students are far from...
Phoenicians
Dictionary of the Ancient Near East
Belief in genetics hype is Watson's problem, says Tom Shakespeare Max Delbruck, the pioneer of 1930s genetics, inspired James Watson to abandon ornithology for molecular biology and later labelled...
Famous First Bubbles
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an autobiographical novel, published posthumously: "When I was a small boy at the beginning of the...
Selected Essays by Frank H. KnightVolumes One and Two
Merchants to Multinationals
Money and the Space Economy
Competition in Telecommunications
Democracy at Risk - The Memory Bank - The Challenge of Global Capitalism
" Two universities are warned by the QAA that only ' limited confidence ' could be placed in their ability to run any overseas academic operations properly. " THES , January 12. May we turn to Item...
The pace of innovation in medical research means that doctors have to be customers of lifelong learning. They cannot cope without keeping abreast of new biomedical understanding and the new...