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London South Bank UniversityOlder students held backMature university candidates are disadvantaged by a poor understanding of the application process, according to research at London South Bank...
London South Bank UniversityOlder students held backMature university candidates are disadvantaged by a poor understanding of the application process, according to research at London South Bank...


Textbooks have been neglected in favour of other media, but Tara Brabazon argues the case for their importance
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New Regulations come into force in October 2008, which will affect the rights of employees on additional maternity or adoption

Academic fraud in Britain is endemic, but universities continue to argue the case for self-regulation. America and Denmark have tougher regimes in place, so should we follow their lead? asks Tariq...
Twenty years ago, Paul Kennedy provoked intense debate with his claims about the decline of US power. Huw Richards meets a man still unafraid of tackling the grand strategies of empire and war

Unmasking academic fraud - Self-regulation is not working for UK universities. Do we need tougher measures?

Lynne Segal on a study of sex behind bars that exposes enduring fault-lines in modern thinking
Most North Americans are aware of the cowboy-Indian images promoted by Hollywood movies. Few are aware of their 19th-century connection to racist dime-store novels popular in the heyday of westward...
1. Time, Policy, Management: Governing with the Past by Christopher Pollitt Oxford University Press, £25.00 ISBN 97801992377222. The Oxford Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations edited by Steve...
Archaeologists must remain sceptical of theories not backed by data, says Margarita Diaz-Andreu
John Barrow, a cosmologist at the University of Cambridge and author of many highly acclaimed books, has given us a richly illustrated volume. It is a celebration of the central role visual images...
From time to time, my students ask me whether I am for or against the European Union. In future, I may just point them in the direction of Anand Menon's new book.Menon's mission is to persuade us to...

John Gilbey relives the heady days of IT upheaval