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A handful of universities have produced more than their share of vice-chancellors. Jack Grove looks at how these centres have nurtured talented leaders
Working with Adults at Risk from HarmEditors: Margaret Greenfields, Roger Dalrymple and Agnes FanningEdition: FirstPublisher: Open University Press/McGraw-HillPages: 296Price: £65.00, £22.99 and £....
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Jeremy Black extols the physical - and psychological - benefits of a country stroll
High levels of nepotism suggested by US analysis linked to 'brain drain'. Frank Nowikowski writes
Manchester/Manchester School of ArchitectureLost undergroundExcavations for a long-forgotten underground railway in Manchester have been rediscovered. Martin Dodge, senior lecturer in human geography...
Are the curiosities of dress of various native peoples really so different from those of today’s London ‘tribes’, asks Matt Lodder
London School of EconomicsPaul De GrauweAn economist and former member of the Belgian Parliament has been named the first holder of the John Paulson chair in European political economy at the London...
Independent scholars can confound, complement and challenge the work of their campus counterparts. Matthew Reisz meets some on the edges of academia whose interests - and prose - are unfettered by...
University of SydneyRosina McAlpine-MladenovicAfter more than 20 years in the job, Rosina McAlpine-Mladenovic is still proud to proclaim that she loves teaching. The associate professor of accounting...
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- A Shoemaker's Story: Being Chiefly about French Canadian Immigrants, Enterprising Photographers, Rascal Yankees, and Chinese Cobblers in a Nineteenth-Century...
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- How the Ocean Works: An Introduction to OceanographyBy Mark Denny, John B. and Jean DeNault professor in marine sciences and biomechanics, Stanford University. Princeton...
Fred Inglis looks for some contemporary comment in a robust defence against the critics of Marxism
That people should be moved out of a former nuclear test site seemed a no-brainer. But spending time with those affected led two researchers to revise their views. David Mould reports