Rare Books for Cardiff University "The 14,000 books, which include rare bibles and atlases, will be bought for £1.2 million by the University with help from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government." Read this article.... Submitted: on 8th Mar 2010 Tags: · The · Rare BooksOur Schools Are Skilled At Making Sure Boys Don’t Read… There is an interesting article by Bruce Deitrick Price, Our Schools Are Skilled At Making Sure Boys Don’t Read…, at Bruce Deitrick Bio. Bruce Deitrick Price has been writing about education for 25 years. He is the founder of Improve-Education.org. His fifth book is titled “THE EDUCATION ENIGMA—What Happened To American Education.” More aggressively than most, Price ... Submitted: 2 days ago Tags: · The · What · American · Bio · Enigma · Schools · What · WritingTagore Literature Awards A new literary award is being handed out in India today, the Tagore Literature Awards: as the Times of India reports, Nandana Sen to anchor Literature Awards. I like the idea behind it: Every year, writings in eight different languages will be awarded, with all 24 Indian languages being covered by the end of the th... Submitted: on 25th Jan 2010 Tags: · The · Awards · India · Literary · Literature · The EndLuther Spoehr, Review of Jonathan R. Cole's "The Great American University: Its Rise to Preeminence, Its Indispensable National, Why It Must Be Protected" (PublicAffairs, 2010) Source: Providence Sunday Journal (2-14-10) In 1963 Clark Kerr, President of the University of California, delivered three lectures on “The Uses of the University.” Still in print, his incisive, comprehensive presentation traced the evolution of American higher education, from college to university to what he termed the “multiversity.” All in less than 100 pages. Jonathan C... Submitted: on 15th Feb 2010 Tags: · print · The · What · American · Cole · Journal · Review · WhatForethoughts: The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe And so I come to The Education of a British-Protected Child, a book penned by one of the real icons of African literature, Nigerian Chinua Achebe. Recently published in the UK on the 12th January 2010 by Allen Lane (an imprint of Penguin), this new work from Achebe – a writer perhaps most Submitted: on 7th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · uk · Chinua Achebe · Literature · Published · uk · WriterAn Education review The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Lynn Barber's An Education. Submitted: on 13th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · ReviewA Proper Education for Girls Di Rollo, Elaine. A Proper Education for Girls. The Talbot twins, Alice and Lillian, are raised by their domineering, but easily distracted father. The girls are educated by reading and writing (at their father's insistence) about items in his bizarre and varied Collection which includes suits of armor, modern farming equipment, synchronized grandfather clocks, fossili... Submitted: on 11th Jan 2010 Tags: · modern · The · Reading · WritingSunday Salon – March 14, 2010 March 14, 2010 What crazy weather we have been having this month. Friday night it hailed, then we had a huge thunder and lightening storm that sent Gizmo under the bed and gave Raven a barking fit, then we had a blizzard with almost a foot of snow. Yesterday was cold and sunny. Today is supposed Submitted: 4 days ago Tags: · The · What · March · Raven · Sent · WeatherOMNIVORE: A fascinating fixture of human language Why half of the world's languages are in serious danger of dying out Submitted: on 30th Dec 2009 Tags: · TheThe Education of a British-Protected Child review The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Chinua Achebe new collection of (mainly old) essays, The Education of a British-Protected Child. Submitted: on 26th Feb 2010 Tags: · The · Chinua Achebe · Essays · Review
