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Blurring boundaries of confidentiality
Malcolm Gillies hesitates before marking any documents 鈥楩or your eyes only鈥
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Hazel Christie, David Eastwood, Matthew Feldman, Stephen Halliday, R.C. Richardson...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Richard Hoggart: Virtue and Reward, by Fred Inglis
Tom Steele welcomes a painstakingly researched account of the renowned cultural critic鈥檚 legacy
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Working Lives: Gender, Migration and Employment in Britain, 1945- 2007, by Linda McDowell
Pat Thane on a book that provides important insights into the experience of female immigrants
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Slow Reading in a Hurried Age, by David Mikics
Are we losing sight of the purpose of reading? Rachel Bowlby isn鈥檛 sure she needs instruction
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Armchair Nation: An Intimate History of Britain in Front of the TV, by Joe Moran
Gary Day enjoys the facts but would have appreciated some more analysis in a comprehensive review of all aspects of television
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The Muslim Brotherhood: Evolution of an Islamist Movement, by Carrie Rosefsky Wickham
Christina Hellmich applauds the clear analysis that reveals a complex array of internal divisions, power struggles and conflicting ideological trends in the Brotherhood
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STEM growth, SWAN song
The Campaign for Science and Engineering warmly welcomes the announcement made by David Willetts, the universities and science minister, during his speech at the Conservative Party conference of...
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Spanners in the works
I have a first from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in engineering from Imperial College London. I am a chartered engineer with 13 years鈥 industrial experience. I have published widely in peer-...
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Failure by analogy
The attempts by Chibuihem Stanley Amalaha, a postgraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Lagos, to use science to prove that homosexuality is unnatural and wrong are disturbing (...
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Fascinating rhythm
It is great news that UK-Brazil collaboration is a rapidly growing 鈥渟pecial relationship鈥 (News, 3 October). 色盒直播鈥檚 coverage reported on factors such as funding and citations, but there is another...
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Gut instinct winded
Nigel Probert (Letters, 3 October) opposes student feedback on the grounds that the teacher鈥檚 intuition is 鈥渁 natural process more immediate and more valuable than formal feedback鈥. Sir Karl Popper...
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Industry's vital fuel for academic engine
In response to Cary Nelson鈥檚 article 鈥淏eware: integrity at risk鈥 (19 September): it is academia鈥檚 role to carry out impartial and independent research and analysis that provides governments, business...
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Scrap personal statements, thinktank argues
Move would level playing field for state school applicants