Top nations in engineering based on impact
Top nations in engineering based on impactRankCountry Papers CitationsCitations per paper1Denmark4,186 25,406 6.072 Switzerland9,711 57,980 5.973 Belgium8,358 43,289 5.184 Sweden9,948 50,148 5.045...
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The magic of face-to-face teaching
The spark of connection between lecturers and students cannot be duplicated, although digitisation has its place in preserving special, life-changing lectures
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Negotiating the termination of employment - when does the dismissal take effect?
It is not uncommon for an employer and an employee to agree to part company on mutually agreed terms.
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Grand designs but shaky foundations
Researcher-dominated schools of architecture are being blamed for a generation who don't know how to make buildings stand up. Hannah Fearn reports
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The bad news bearers
From Aids to climate change, scientists tackling global threats often struggle to balance accurate reporting with a commitment to drive governments to action. Matthew Reisz reports
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Oiling the learning machine
The huge expansion of higher education in the Gulf offers major opportunities for UK academe. But, as John Gill reports, there are also challenges
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21 August 2008
Well educated - How oil is fuelling a higher education revolution in the Gulf
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Transferring a service contract to two or more parties – who takes on the employees?
Diane Gilhooley, HR expert in the education team at Eversheds, offers advice on transferring a service contract to two or more parties
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Giving the past a shelf life
Pamela Robinson considers the post-Reformation book collectors whose choices spoke volumes
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Does Feminism Discriminate against Men? A Debate
It is tempting to dismiss this volume as part of the well-documented backlash against feminism, but that would be unfair to James Sterba, who argues that feminism has rightly challenged the various...
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Beyond Bullsh*t: Straight-Talk at Work
I don't usually venture along the shelves of self-help business manuals, but a book that makes claims to going beyond bullshit appealed. When you have been in senior university management as long as...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Reading
1. Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy edited by John CottinghamCambridge University Press, £9.99ISBN 97805215581812. Ethics: A Contemporary Introduction by Harry J. GenslerRoutledge, £17....
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Geography is not what it seems
Timothy Darvill looks at how cultural change over 10,000 years has altered the face of Europe
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Free Riding
The barstool and tobacco-chewing view of politics as the activity of power-mad crooks has, of late, become the disgraceful commonplace of the yellow press. The corollary expectoration that political...
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The Black Death: An Intimate History
When history students choose the subject of their dissertations, they often opt for "the Black Death". One hopes they have selected this topic because the disastrous mortality of 1348-49 and the...