Gloria Monday: What were YOU thinking?
In these days of low morale, universities will try anything to grab positive publicity. Gloria Monday just wishes there was a little less spin and a little more substance
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Bullied Blogger: Kafkaesque days of menacing complexity
I am totally confused by what is happening. I am signed off sick by a concerned GP; I am suspended; I am taking out a grievance against my university; they are taking out a disciplinary action...
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A clash of sensibilities
Claire Harman’s citation rows with Oxford scholar Kathryn Sutherland and Peter Sabor of McGill University demonstrate the bad feeling that can arise when popular writers and academics operate on the...
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Liverpool John Moores student held in terror raid
As many as ten suspects could possess student visas. Melanie Newman reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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By the role divided
Amid talk of an iron curtain or apartheid separating them, administrators and academics struggle to find common cause. Hopes of detente lie with the 'blended' professional. John Gill reports
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A shot across the bow
Publishers see every download of a pirate copy of a textbook as a sale lost. Now they are fighting back against the bookaneers, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Leader: Different players, same side
Despite the tension between administrators and academics, they share many aims. Both parties ought to recognise this
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Virgin territory
Mother of God, Miri Rubin's ambitious new book, looks at the figure of Mary, concentrating on her image in love, grief and the primordial experience of the mother. Matthew Reisz talked to her
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Political Correctness and Higher Education: British and American Perspectives
In Anglo-American universities where it was born, "political correctness" spurs self-righteousness and bile. For the progressive Left - a politically correct term to exclude social democrats -...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Liverpool
1. Oxford Handbook of Palliative Care, Second Edition by Max Watson, Caroline Lucas, Andrew Hoy and Jo Wells. Oxford University Press, £.95. ISBN 97801992343562. The Royal Marsden Hospital Manual of...
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Book of the week: The Politics of Climate Change
Andrew Gamble finds a nation-by-nation strategy on global warming persuasive
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The week in books
A Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to Manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity by Nicholas Stern, I.G. Patel chair, head of the India Observatory and chair of the...
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Published this week
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- Open Business Innovation Leadership: The Emergence of the Stakeholder UniversityEdited by Aldo Romano, professor of innovation management, University of Salento. Palgrave...
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Jumping for joy
Dr Julia Persimmon of our biology department shows that "spring" is indeed in the air. Julia, who is currently researching modes of quantifying the integration of quorum-sensing signals with single-...