19 March 2009
Noteworthy - Academics’ and vice-chancellors’ pay 2007-08
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Tara Brabazon: Return of the brain changers
Media scaremongering about the sinister effects of new media on young people’s brains is a poor excuse for failing to engage with and bring out the best in our students, argues Tara Brabazon
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Bullied Blogger: Paranoid (and very isolated) android
9 March: After my session last week with Marcus about most of my modules failing the organisation’s new viability test, I go home in a state of great anguish. I know this exercise is contrived, I...
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Opinion: More stars, less smoke, fewer mirrors
The Government and universities must come clean about the A* A-level grade before the whole examination standard is undermined, writes Geoff Lucas
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Gloria Monday: Guess who’s coming to dinner?
Gloria Monday’s newfound street cred sees her sharing a Quorn and vodka repast around a student table where the proletarian accents are fake but the filth is real
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Cambridge to demand A* A levels from 2010
University rejects call to ignore new grade in the short term. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Meritocracy knocks
The 2008 RAE results mean that funders will have to judge institutions on delivery, not reputation, writes Gerald Bennett
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‘Disability’ under the Disability Discrimination Act
In this article we consider a recent case on the question of when an employee is “disabled” for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).
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You don't have to be fixated to work here...
The academy has long been a haven for obsessives, but now its emphasis on teamwork would ill suit socially inept geniuses such as Paul Dirac, writes Matthew Reisz
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Stone-Age thinking
Evolutionary psychology applies the tenets of Darwinism to human thought and action, with major implications for public policy. But critics say it presents untestable, headline-grabbing myths as fact...
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Book of the week: Major Farran's Hat
Tony Kushner admires an analysis of a brutal episode in British history
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The week in books
Finance: Servant or Deceiver? Financialization at the Crossroads by Paul H. Dembinski, professor of economics, University of Fribourg. Palgrave Macmillan, £60.00, ISBN 9780230220379"Some of the book'...
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Tapping the Riches of Science: Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth
The pressure to be economically relevant is more injurious than implied here, says Graham Farmelo
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Plato's Ghost: the Modernist Transformation of Mathematics
Music, literature and the visual arts all underwent modernist transformations around the turn of the 20th century. Could it be that mathematics did the same thing? Just to give this question serious...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, St Andrews
1. Quantitative Approaches in Business Studies, Seventh Edition by Clare Morris. Pearson Education, £38.99. ISBN 978037088962. Art in Theory 1900-2000, Second Edition by Charles Harrison and Paul...