The week in books
Darwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to The God Delusion by John Cornwell, affiliated research scholar in the department of history and philosophy of science, University of Cambridge. Profile Books, £6...
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE- A Mechanistic Approach to Plankton EcologyBy Thomas Kirboe, research professor, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research. Princeton University Press, £23.95. ISBN 9780691134222A...
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Shock and gore not to the fore
A hate figure of popular history reveals his more caring side to Tom Palaima in a vivid new treatment
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Coding and Redundancy: Man-made and Animal-evolved Signals
When the mathematician Claude E. Shannon published his classic paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" in the Bell System Technical Journal in 1948, he affected a variety of different...
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The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England
The most conspicuous trademark of New Historicism is its use of anecdote. In their attempts to foreground the relativity of canonicity, the New Historicists would not begin their analysis of Othello...
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World University Rankings 2009
The Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings for 2009 will be published here at 00.01 on Thursday 8 October
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World rankings provoke global reaction
The 2008 Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings have provoked a response worldwide, as power-shifts among the top 200 institutions are analysed.
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From Where I Sit - Campaigning for the dream vote
What must surely be the longest presidential campaign in US history is taking place in an unlimited media environment, yet not since the 1920s has academic opinion so despaired of the educative value...
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Computer or Manager? Spot the Difference
Several leading national newspapers were quick to pick up on the news that our current Head of Computation, Professor Norbert Norbert, has designed a "university management computer" which is...
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Why is funding so unfair?
When it comes to grants, Tim Birkhead knows just how Kevin the Teenager feels
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Off Piste: The trick is not the real treat
In performing magic, academic and author Dale Salwak found a demanding calling that rewarded him with joy and self-discovery
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Leader: A measure much needed
Always controversial, the World University Rankings are nevertheless an invaluable quality-marker for the sector
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Brian Bercusson, 1947-2008
Brian Bercusson, one of the world's leading authorities on European labour law, has died.Although he was born in Montreal in 1947 and initially educated in Canada and Israel, Professor Bercusson...
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Model masters but minimalist sixth forms 1
In your comprehensive analysis of the Bologna Process you state "the one-year masters offered by UK universities could be seen as minimalist, even lazy" ("The long and the short of it", 2 October)....
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Model masters but minimalist sixth forms 2
No discussion of the masters degree is complete without taking note of another peculiarity of English - though less so Scottish - education, namely the specialised sixth form, which transfers to...