Thinking about Leadership
Amanda Goodall finds this analysis perceptive, useful...and it's written by someone who has led
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Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language
Many of today's common phrases originated in the Authorised Version, Hannibal Hamlin discovers
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Surviving Hitler's War: Family Life in Germany, 1939-48
Much has been written about women in wartime and post-war Germany, generally to the effect that they were left to shoulder the burdens of maintaining family life in both the terrifying and chaotic...
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The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene
It is not, I suggest, just an accident that all those we think of as typical rational beings - namely human ones - have begun their lives as babies, living in a deeply affectionate and dependent...
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Herding Cats: Being Advice to Aspiring Academic and Research Leaders
Malcolm Gillies enjoys this aphoristic guide to university life but fears time may have moved on
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
Until the 19th century, the average person consumed $3 per day (in today's prices). There were small blips for ancient Rome, the early medieval Arab world and late medieval Europe, but otherwise the...
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Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain
This book advertises itself as a self-directed course to explore mind, brain and consciousness in a way that involves not just reading, but engaging in various activities that allow diligent students...
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Rita, Stan and Ken, too
Fifty years old today, Coronation Street redefined commercial television. Clive Bloom celebrates the quietly socialist institution, once radical, now nostalgic, that offers us a vision of working-...
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Daytime TV: Larger than life
Heroes exist in every arena, says Gary Day, and their passion and valour add colour and zest to history
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Diary
OxfordShelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary FamilyThis major exhibition at the Bodleian Library in Oxford brings together material from its own collection and the New York Public Library...
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The Pick - Cloak and dagger
Aware: Art Fashion IdentityRoyal Academy of Arts, until 30 January 2011Susie MacMurray's Widow looks like a great black glistening ball gown, perfect for a Hollywood star at a grand reception. It is...
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The hidden dangers of higher tuition fees (1 of 2)
Throughout the debate on increasing university tuition fees, I have heard no mention of the hidden costs. Here are six of them:• One unplanned result of the increase is likely to be a significant...
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The hidden dangers of higher tuition fees (2 of 2)
I was a vice-chancellor for 20 years and regarded it as part of my brief to anticipate the next change in government policy and how to mitigate its effects on my university. In that I believe I was...
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Theory first, teaching later (1 of 2)
In The Idea of a University (1852), John Henry Newman reminded us of the danger of professional training in universities being absorbed by a narrow range of concerns. Building practical competence is...
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Theory first, teaching later (2 of 2)
After teaching in several schools, both in the UK and other developed countries, I moved into teacher training. My students were tutors who taught in fields as diverse as physics and policing.My...