Backstage at the Revolution
Brian Vick praises a study that explains how a bastion of opulence outlasted the sans-culottes
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The Persistence of the Classical: Essays on Architecture presented to David Watkin
This beautiful book is a tribute to a distinguished architectural historian on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Cambridge, and includes a useful bibliography of David Watkin's...
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Cardiff
1. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook edited by Nikolas Coupland and Adam Jaworski. Palgrave Macmillan, £22.99 ISBN 97803336118072. Atiyah's Accidents, Compensation and the Law, Seventh...
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Moral Relativism
A treatise on moral relativism leads Robert Segal to question whether we are in fact absolutists
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Homo erectus: Pleistocene Evidence from the Middle Awash, EthiopiaEdited by W. Henry Gilbert, assistant professor of anthropology, California State...
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From where I sit - Different strokes for different folk
"Europe's diverse school systems contain a host of innovative and excellent practices. We should make better use of this diversity." So says An Agenda for European Co-operation on Schools, a recent...
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Nothing but blue skies
Our Head of Social Psychology, Professor G.W. Tipping, has thrown his not-inconsiderable weight behind the letter from 20 eminent scientists calling for a rebellion against new research council rules...
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Speak plainly unto nation
Sally Feldman says academics should talk to the media about their work
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Leader: Get serious about teaching
By continuing to undervalue and underfund the thing that makes UK higher education unique, we endanger our reputation
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Sheila Allen, 1930-2009
Sheila Allen, a leading feminist, sociologist and political activist, has died.She was born in East Yorkshire in 1930 and brought up in Lincolnshire. Her father was an impoverished Irish labourer...
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Teaching quality is not linked to qualification
Your report "Lib Dems want better teaching and no fees" (12 February) implies that there is a link between possessing a teaching qualification and providing high-quality teaching. No such link has...
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Hefce can save us
How heartening to finally have an acknowledgement of the value of our efforts to teach atypical students at London Metropolitan University and the difficulties we face doing so. How disappointing...
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Cash in pockets since 2001
We've read a lot of nonsense about the implications of the research assesment exercise 2008 (much from a rent-a-quote vice-chancellor), including frequent reference to a wider spread of funding and a...
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Pleasures of poaching
As an American physicist who has worked in Sydney and now Cambridge for nearly 20 years, I found some irony in the close juxtaposition of the insightful opinion piece by Alan Ryan of the University...
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No truth in age-old claims
"Older isn't always wiser" (29 January) is the headline of a report about University of Bedfordshire vice-chancellor Les Ebdon's claims that "many researchers" may be past their prime by the age of...