Cap and gown learning on a shoestring budget
With novel credentials being developed and employers seeing the value of low-cost study based on open courseware, Jon Marcus asks if the bricks-and-mortar elite will end up on the wrong side of...
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Off Piste - Lesser Spotted - Well, that's just the professors
Physicist Athene Donald's pleasure in people-watching may owe something to a childhood spent observing birds of all kinds as they soared over city heaths and icy coastal mudflats
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The week in higher education
• Two teenagers ruffled feathers at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by bringing a legal challenge against this year's tuition-fee hike. Lawyers for Callum Hurley, from Peterborough...
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From where I sit - P.S. Ich liebe dich
The German media have found themselves irresistibly attracted to a student who wants to turn flirting into a subject for academic analysis by introducing his own seminar on "live flirting training"...
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Odds and quads
These striking wire-mesh sculptures of naked, falling figures hanging from the ceiling often attract attention and comment from students and visitors at the University of Sunderland's automotive...
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Appointments
University of BathDavid MillerA newly appointed professor of sociology at the University of Bath aims to analyse the impact of terrorism studies as part of his new role. David Miller, previously...
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Time is the essence
Malcolm Gillies argues that to succeed, universities must be of the moment
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Textbook guide - 23 February 2012
Subjects covered: Biosciences, Geography & environmental science, History, Literature, Medicine, Politics & international relationsSee the 23 February 2012 textbook guide
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A Global History of History
Author: Daniel WoolfEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 596Price: £60.00 and £22.99ISBN: 9780521875752 and 699082The past decade has seen global history become part of the...
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History round-up
The Second World WarAuthor: A.W. PurdueEdition: SecondPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 240Price: £60.00 and £19.99ISBN: 97802309353 and 9360One of the most concise yet comprehensive accounts of...
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Student Review: A History of Modern Germany: 1800 to the Present
Author: Martin KitchenEdition: SecondPublisher: John Wiley & SonsPages: 440Price: £22.99 and £14.99ISBN: 9780470655818 and 9781444396898 (e-book)A History of Modern Germany: 1800 to the...
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Sexuality in Europe: A Twentieth-Century History
Author: Dagmar HerzogEdition: First Publisher Cambridge University PressPages: 238Price: £50.00 and £16.99ISBN: 9780521870962 and 1691437What is the purpose of sex? Is it an outlet for lust, simply a...
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Study Skills for Geography, Earth and Environmental Science Students
Author: Pauline KnealeEdition: ThirdPublisher: Hodder EducationPages: 320Price: £15.99ISBN: 9781444120967The third edition of this book (first published in 1999) has been extended from its original...
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Geography & Environmental Science round-up
Introduction to Restoration EcologyAuthors: Evelyn A. Howell, John A. Harrington and Stephen B. GlassEdition: FirstPublisher: Island PressPages: 568Price: £57.00ISBN: 9781597261890Written for upper-...
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Student Review: Roots and Research in Urban School Gardens
Author: Veronica GaylieEdition: FirstPublisher: Peter LangPages: 195Price: £75.40 and £19.70ISBN: 9781433115264 and 5257Like the gardens it explores, this textbook delivers. The aim is to examine the...