Chemistry roundup
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics for EngineersAuthors: S. Kjelstrup, D. Bedeaux, E. Johannessen and J. GrossEdition: FirstPublisher: World Scientific PressPages: 2Price: £42.00ISBN 9789814322157The...
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Student review: Quantitative Chemical Analysis
Author: Daniel C. HarrisEdition: Eighth revisedPublisher: W.H. FreemanPages: 750Price: £46.99ISBN 9781429239899For freshers, the university lab can be an intimidating place. Faced with an abundance...
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Introduction to Qualitative Methods in Psychology
Author: Dennis HowittEdition: FirstPublisher: PearsonPages: 488Price: £29.99ISBN 9780132068741There are more and more textbooks available on qualitative research in psychology. This seems incredible...
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Psychology and psychiatry roundup
Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of AnorexiaAuthor: Megan WarinEdition: FirstPublisher: Rutgers University PressPages: 280Price: £64.50 and £23.50ISBN 9780813546896 and 6902Warin departs from...
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Student review: Social Psychology
Authors: Thomas Gilovich, Dacher Keltner and Richard E. NisbettEdition: Second internationalPublisher: W.W. NortonPages: 800Price: £32.99ISBN 9780393932584Social psychology illuminates and analyses...
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Legal Traditions of the World: Sustainable Diversity in Law
Author: H. Patrick GlennEdition: FourthPublisher: Oxford University PressPages: 448Price: £33.99ISBN 9780199580804Why would one recommend this book? Although the subtitle suggests an economics focus...
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UUK is OK!
Our vice-chancellor has vigorously defended the response of Universities UK to the Browne Review.Speaking to our reporter Keith Ponting (30), he commended UUK's decision to say absolutely nothing...
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Browne's hidden hand a slap in sector's face (part 1)
When it comes to higher education for the humanities and social sciences, the language of cuts has disguised one of the most thoroughgoing acts of privatisation since the sell-off of national assets...
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Browne's hidden hand a slap in sector's face (part 2)
The battle is raging over whether competition is a good way to drive up quality in the sector. If we accept Lord Browne's (and presumably the government's) view that it is, why exclude science,...
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Browne's hidden hand a slap in sector's face (part 3)
Vernon Bogdanor repeats the Browne Review's assertion that, since 2004, there has been a "significant and sustained" increase in participation in higher education by people from disadvantaged areas...
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Browne's hidden hand a slap in sector's face (part 4)
We are very concerned that some of the recommendations in the Browne Review could prevent disabled students from accessing university.The proposed £3,750 upfront loan for living expenses does not...
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Browne's hidden hand a slap in sector's face (part 5)
I wonder where Baroness Warnock has been all these years ("The review's reverberations", 28 October)? She sounds like Margaret Thatcher who, as education minister in the 1970s, was told that some of...
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Browne's hidden hand a slap in sector's face (part 6)
Where, I wonder, are the vice-chancellors in responding to this grave threat to the public cultural role of universities? When the vital interests of the armed forces are at grave risk, the chiefs of...
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Multiple voice question
A component element in the UK's poor performance in modern languages is that many British academics are monolingual and unable to either present their work in foreign languages or read research done...
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Astuteness of crowds
Many believe that above a certain threshold of competence, the award of research council grants has become almost a lottery ("Grant award? It could be you", 30 September).The success rate is very low...