The Cinderella students
Part-timers have it hard: more commitments and responsibilities but much less support than full-timers, as the biggest survey of their lot to date shows. But changes in the political agenda could...
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The colour of money
Sustainability on campus is a vital issue, and in a climate of austerity it also makes financial sense. That fiscal impetus is good news, because as the Green League table shows, the sector still has...
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Book of the week: Nonsense on Stilts
Lou Marinoff on a scholarly volunteer's heroic and humorous battle to turn back the moronic tide
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The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon
John Grodzinski considers a rare British look at an epic clash between the US and a nascent Canada
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Explaining the Normative
The "normative" defines a traditional faultline between philosophy and the social sciences. On the one side lies what we ought to do, on the other what we actually do. The difference between the two...
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The Canon: Hidden from History: 300 Years of Women's Oppression and the Fight against It. By Sheila Rowbotham
I can still remember the excitement I felt when, in 1981, I was offered a Social Science Research Council studentship to study full-time for my PhD at The Open University. I had intended to research...
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Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Charles Townshend finds a striking critique of counterterrorism sometimes goes too far
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The Music Industry: Music in the Cloud
It may read like a slice of vintage techno-hippy jargon, but using the term "cloud" as a metaphor for the internet has increasingly found favour among music industries commentators.The cloud was...
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Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities
With his "curious things", "odd corners" and "musty treasures", Charles Dickens makes himself and us at home with the queer. He is drawn to people who seem to be out of place, out of time and out of...
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Banished: The New Social Control in Urban America
Roy Coleman on the politics of fear and finance driving the police crackdowns on 'undesirables'
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Fiction across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Late Twentieth-Century Novels
The semi-autobiographical narrator of Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique Land (1992) is touched when an Egyptian in the village in which he is conducting anthropological research tries to put himself in...
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Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany
Given the glut of books about Nazism that rehash familiar ground, Oliver Lubrich's Travels in the Reich achieves no mean feat in approaching the subject in a new way. Through a collection of accounts...
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EDUCATION- Dimensions of Expertise: A Conceptual Exploration of Vocational KnowledgeBy Christopher Winch, professor of educational philosophy and policy, King's College London Continuum, £75.00. ISBN...
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Actually, it's three brains
I never thought I would find myself contradicting both Dr Loab and The Poppletonian ( May), but David Willetts appears to have not one, not two, but a trio of brains. The first appears to have been...
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Savings: v-cs should lead by example
In his letter to Times Higher Education last week ("They're worth it, they say"), James Uccello comments on Vince Cable's attack on vice-chancellors' salaries ("Cable 'taken aback' by recent v-c pay...