Universities need to change tack to succeed in industry
Account managers are key to partnerships between academics and business, conference hears. Hannah Fearn reports
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Queen's Birthday Honours 2009
Knights BachelorProfessor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran. Professor and head of obstetrics and gynaecology and president, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. For services to medicine. (London...
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BIS remit ‘too broad’ for one select committee
Government urged to separate science and technology for scrutiny. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Lords condemn ‘retrograde’ department merger
Government’s perception of the value of higher education called into question. Rebecca Attwood reports
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BIS ministerial team announced
David Lammy keeps his higher education brief, but ‘student issues’ are now the responsibility of the Minister for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs
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Constructive dismissal - a change in approach
Constructive dismissal is one of the more common claims considered by employment tribunals. However, a recent decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal may alter how tribunals approach this issue...
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Universities 'delighted', not horrified, by new ministry, Mandelson claims
New BIS head’s first speech focuses on how to turn discoveries into jobs. Zoe Corbyn reports
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The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity and Globalization
Mary Evans agrees that the Western definition of female beauty has global economic significance
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Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal
It is not always easy, in our world of lightning-fast communications, to appreciate that there was, as historian David Armitage claims, a "prehistory of globalisation". One of the greatest monuments...
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The Canon: The Making of Homeric Verse. By Milman Parry
In 1933, a bold, brave and very young Harvard University classicist, Milman Parry, set out to solve the Homeric Question. He wanted to know how the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed. In order to...
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Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England
Sophie Gilmartin discovers a sensational account of couples who fell foul of Victorian marriage laws
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The Mind of Jihad
Anyone who has been to a bookshop in the past seven years can testify to the enormous growth in the literature on terrorism and jihadism. The literature has also become increasingly specialised, with...
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THE Book of the Week - Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children's Literature
Innocent or knowing? Shelley King on the portrayal of children in Victorian writing
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The Triumph of Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle
Anne Hogan enjoys this analysis of the interplay between the Sun King's reign and theatre
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Elia Kazan: The Cinema of an American Outsider
Elia Kazan seems as likely to be remembered for his politics as for his work as film director, stage director and novelist - an outcome that would scarcely have pleased him. But his decision in 1952...