Costly case of Chinese whispers
Mr. China
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A rant can be as good as a rest
Unpopular Culture
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Stiff competition drives economies into high gear
The Power of Productivity
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A kaleidoscope of consumerism
This book addresses a global audience, as reflected in the diverse backgrounds of the contributors and the examples they present. Consumer and company behaviours across six continents are fairly...
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Is bigger really always better?
Creating Value from Mergers and Acquisitions
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Some applied creative thinking
Innovation Management
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A valuable work for those people experiencing personnel problems
A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice
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Questions of degree 1
Would it really be sensible to replace degree classes by some other system, supposedly objective and more fine-grained? Percentage marks do not and should not possess the kind of objectivity that...
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Questions of degree 2
John Curran is right to point out the variation in the methods by which honours classifications are calculated. That is not new. Ten years ago, the Student Assessment and Classification Working Group...
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Questions of degree 3
I was pleased to see Robert Burgess's comments (Soapbox, November 5) about the value of every classification of degree. This year we awarded a discretionary prize to a graduate who had barely scraped...
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Only transmit?
Frank Furedi has certainly provoked me this week (Working Knowledge, November 5). There are, of course, many academics without a qualification in "teaching" who are excellent lecturers and one reason...
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Union rules
Regarding a name for the merged Association of University Teachers and the lecturers' union Natfhe: will we eschew single-word names that sound like an online bank? Might the word "union" be included...
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Ethics, boys and girls
Ethics, boys and girls Surely it is more of a cause for celebration than regret that the majority of UK universities have managed to put up such resistance to the ill-considered movement to replicate...
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Save our staff
No one reading your article "Bullying made me feel suicidal" (Soapbox, November 5) can have failed to be moved by the plight of the writer whom you described as "a once fulfilled academic". That a...
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Rankings don't tell whole truth 1
Your top 200 ranking (World University Rankings, November 5) needs some refinement to allow for performance relative to funding. Until June 2002, I was an associate professor at the University of the...