THE WINNERS 2008
Choosing the 18 winners from the shortlisted entries has been extremely difficult and they can rightly be proud of their success: each represents excellence in their field and we congratulate them...
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A sudden step up the career ladder
When a whiny colleague approaches Gloria for a favour, she braces herself for extra work. Instead, she gets a surprise promotion
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What is the role of the companion at a disciplinary hearing? Do we have to allow employees to bring a lawyer along?
The statutory right to be accompanied The Employment Relations Act 1999 sets out, at Section 10, the right of employees to be accompanied at disciplinary and grievance hearings. The legislation...
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A gathering in the ninth circle with Elvis and Yoko
The meetings called all too frequently by administrators are all too often unnecessary, and all too often hellish, says Tara Brabazon
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Citizenship papers
Linda Colley tells Matthew Reisz how her work on 'Britishness' fed into an exhibition about the fight to enshrine liberty in the national fabric
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Keep it stupid, simple
Is dumbing down a reality on UK campuses? Most respondents to our online poll highlighted dangers to academic standards, but they were split about whether degrees are worth less than they were before...
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23 October 2008
Dumb. Adj. slow to learn; lacking intellectual acuity; - Are academic standards really falling?
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Nottingham
1. Frank Wood's Business Accounting: Volume One by Frank Wood and Alan Sangster; Prentice Hall, £36.99; ISBN 978037121212. Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw and Mark P. Taylor; South-Western, £44.99;...
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Currency conversions
It's credit where due, says Tom Rutter, in this account of the monetary context of the Bard's work
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Book of the week: The Age of Wonder
Richard Sha explores the influence of science on Romanticism
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The week in books
Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig, professor of law, Stanford University. Avery Publications, £20.00 and £12.99, ISBN 9781594201721 and 408113479"Lessig...
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A life played out on centre page
Sean Matthews discusses Raymond Williams' reliance on his own life experiences in his work
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Secrets of the Hoary Deep: A Personal History of Modern Astronomy
In the past four decades X-ray astronomy has completely transformed astrophysics, and the discoveries made by space missions devoted to X-ray astronomy have contributed greatly to our knowledge of...
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Competing Voices from the Crusades: Fighting Words
This book is an interesting and ambitious concept, aiming to present Latin Christian, Muslim and Byzantine voices from the Crusades and, to quote the editors, to allow readers "to determine for...