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Adrian Furnham offers a guide to the syndromes you may encounter in the world of HR courses
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Universities should not be viewed as a cure-all for every social policy or economic goal
Professor argues that academics must make sure they stick to core activities rather than being forced to be all things to all men
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Tara Brabazon: Academics must wise up to Web 2.0 marketing – and the answer is high-quality podcasts
iPod broadcasts provide the best way for universities to present and strengthen their brand to would-be students and the public; the message must be to use the beat of popular culture to convey a...
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Boost emotional skills to help reduce drop-out rates, say academics
Universities urged to develop programmes to help young adults make transition to higher education, writes Melanie Newman
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Funding body blow
FE colleges will feel the pain as strapped universities look after themselves
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Bonanza or bust
Universities report a frenzy of applications through clearing, but thousands of students will be left with nothing
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Congratulations, now hurry up and wait
Today’s A-level results are yet again better than last year’s, but because of the government-imposed cap on student numbers, good results won’t guarantee a university place
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Doubts over Roberts cash ‘damaging’, says Vitae
Researchers fear for future of £20m careers funding. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Book of the week: - What Intelligence Tests Miss
A high IQ doesn't always make for smart choices, Wendy Johnson finds
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Blood and Mistletoe
The tale of Druidry and Welsh national identity is one of humour and humanity, finds Timothy Mowl
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Spooks: The Unofficial History of MI5
This is a solid book, ambitious in the scope of its content and thorough in every aspect of espionage in Britain, from the creation of MI5 in 1909 to our present world of Big Brother surveillance,...
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The Canon: The Madwoman in the Attic
The Madwoman in the Attic By Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan GubarDuring the late 1970s at Columbia University, we used to play a game called Humiliation. Would-be scholars racked up points by confessing...
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Free radical
Matthew Reisz interviews George Scialabba, the Harvard provocateur with independent views who fears the death of the public intellectual
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Consuming Traditions: Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic
Rebecca Leach is drawn into an exploration of how commercial interests affected late Victorians
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CULTURAL STUDIES- Learning at the Museum Frontiers: Identity, Race and PowerBy Viv Golding, lecturer in museum studies, University of Leicester. Ashgate, £55.00. ISBN 9780754646914Golding argues that...