Latin Literature

The dullest book of theAeneid? Certainly not, insist Stephen Heyworth and James Morwood in their commentary onAeneid3. There can't be many students at school or university level who cut their teeth on epic Virgil with his third book, but Wadham College, Oxford, where H&M were colleagues, has been the glorious exception for a quarter of a century, and the rest of us now have good reason to follow suit. I don't just mean the ‘thrilling traveller's tale’ (so the dust-jacket) that carries us from Polydorus to Polyphemus by way of such episodes as the Cretan plague, the Harpy attack, and a pointed stop-off at Actium, nor the ktistic and prophetic themes that give this book such weight in Virgil's grand narrative. There's also the simple matter of accessibility.Doctissimi lectoresofAeneid3 can consult Nicholas Horsfall's densely erudite and wickedly overpriced Brill commentary, but others have had to make do with one of R. D. Williams’ more apologetic efforts. (True, there is an efficient student edition by C. Perkell, but that seems to have made little headway in the UK, at least.) Now Aeneas’ odyssey takes a place among the few books of theAeneidfor which undergraduates and others can draw on commentaries which are at once accessible, sophisticated, and affordable.

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SECULARIZATION AND MODERNIZATION: THE FAILURE OF A ‘GRAND NARRATIVE’

The Historical Journal ◽

10.1017/s0018246x11000586 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 55 (1) ◽

pp. 161-194 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

J. C. D. CLARK

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Early Modern Period ◽

Sociology Of Religion ◽

Historical Research ◽

Central Component ◽

Modernization Theory ◽

Grand Narrative ◽

Modern Period ◽

The Uk ◽

Historical Scenario

ABSTRACTThis historiographical review offers a critical reconsideration of a central component of modernization theory: the model of secularization devised within the sociology of religion, and especially the version sustained by sociologists in the UK. It compares that model with the results of historical research in a range of themes and periods, and suggests that those results are now often radically inconsistent with this sociological orthodoxy. It concludes that an older historical scenario which located in the early modern period the beginnings of a ‘process’ of secularization that achieved its natural completion in the nineteenth or twentieth centuries is finally untenable, and it proposes a broader, more historical conception of ‘religion’ able to accommodate both persistent religiosity and undoubted changes in religious behaviour.

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Easing the transition from secondary school to higher education through recognition of the skills of our students

New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Sciences ◽

10.29311/ndtps.v0i6.385 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 51-55

Author(s):

Orla C Kelly ◽

Odilla E Finlayson

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Short Communication ◽

Learning Experience ◽

First Year ◽

Physical Sciences ◽

First Year Students ◽

Business Innovation ◽

University Level ◽

The Uk ◽

Chemical Events

This short communication discusses research, which has investigated students‟ self-perception of their skills. This was to identify which skills they felt most and least confident in upon starting university. General and scientific and practical skills as well as skills related to improving learning were explored. The results suggested that students felt most confident in working in groups, interacting with people to obtain the necessary information and assistance, and observing chemical events and changes among others. In contrast students felt least confident in planning and presenting an oral presentation, analysing and evaluating experimental data, and using the internet and other resources to gain information. Details of how the findings were used to make effective changes to an existing module will be discussed. Furthermore, the relevance of this in terms of supporting our first year students in their transition to university-level work and subsequently planning appropriate modules will be discussed in relation to the recently published results from the UK Physical Sciences Centre Review of the Student Learning Experience in Chemistry and in light of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills Higher Ambitions and Skills for Growth papers.

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18. Equal pay

Employment Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198806752.003.0018 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 302-327

Author(s):

Stephen Taylor ◽

Astra Emir

Keyword(s):

Good Reason ◽

Sex Discrimination ◽

Gender Pay Gap ◽

Positive Duty ◽

Equal Pay ◽

Pay Gap ◽

Similar Work ◽

Opposite Sex ◽

Equal Pay Act ◽

The Uk

This chapter discusses the evolution of equal pay law in the UK, selection of comparator by the claimant, employer defences and remedies, bringing a claim, bringing equal pay cases using sex discrimination statutes, and critiques of equal pay law. The Equal Pay Act, which came into operation in 1975, was repealed in 2010, but its content was effectively transposed into the Equality Act 2010. A claimant is required to name a comparator of the opposite sex who she claims is paid more than she is, without good reason, despite doing the same work, broadly similar work, work which has been rated as equivalent or work of equal value. Equal pay law has been criticised for failing to bring about equality in pay between men and women. Suggested reforms include placing a positive duty on employers to take action to eliminate unequal pay. The chapter also considers gender pay gap reporting.

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Sir Edgar William John Mitchell CBE. 25 September 1925 – 30 October 2002

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ◽

10.1098/rsbm.2004.0013 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 50 ◽

pp. 171-181

Author(s):

Roger A. Cowley

Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Research Council ◽

Science Research ◽

Experimental Physicist ◽

University Level ◽

The Uk ◽

The University ◽

Head Of Department ◽

Research Centres ◽

Science Research Council

William Mitchell was a skilled experimental physicist who made important contributions to British physics both at the university level, as head of department in both Reading and Oxford universities, and as Chairman of the Science Research Council from 1985 to 1990. He left a permanent mark on the direction of science in the UK through his encouragement of others, through the creation of interdisciplinary research centres and through his enthusiasm for central facilities.

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Rewriting the History Books: The Magdalenian Art of Creswell Crags

Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199299171.003.0020 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Claire Fisher ◽

Rob Dinnis

Keyword(s):

Good Reason ◽

National Geographic ◽

The Social ◽

Social Centre ◽

Ancient Monuments ◽

The Uk ◽

The University ◽

The Guardian ◽

English Heritage ◽

Cave Art

The text books say that there is no cave art in Britain. These will now have to be rewritten. . . . There had been a psychological barrier to the existence of cave art in Britain . . . butnever a satisfactory explanationas to why there was none. (Jon Humble, Inspector of Ancient Monuments, English Heritage, in an interview with John Pickrell for National Geographic News) In April 2003 Britain’s first unequivocal Palaeolithic parietal art was discovered in Creswell Crags, a narrow limestone gorge located on the Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire border in the English North Midlands. The announcement of its discovery was accompanied by a furore of media attention. Archaeological dogma had long maintained that no such art would be discovered in Britain, although, as Bahn (2003) has suggested, there was no good reason for such art not to exist. As Bahn highlighted, Britain has plenty of caves with evidence of Upper Palaeolithic occupation, plus examples of portable art from the period, including two figurative engravings attributed to Creswell Crags. The Magdalenian era was the last time that Europe was unified ‘in a real sense and on a grand scale’ (Paul Pettitt, quoted in The Guardian, 15 April 2004) and the conference organizers realized that to fully appreciate and understand the Creswell art, it must be considered in its wider continental context. The conference in Creswell was conceived to bring together specialists from across Europe and to place the art of Creswell in its European setting. The conference was held at the Social Centre in Creswell from 15 to 17 April 2004, and was organized by the team who had discovered the art, along with Andrew Chamberlain of the University of Sheffield and Ian Wall of the Creswell Heritage Trust. The Creswell Crags project is at the heart of regeneration in this former rural coalfield area. Indeed, Jon Humble (English Heritage 2003) has described the project in glowing terms as, ‘quite possibly the best and most successful example of an archaeology-led project for social and economic regeneration anywhere in the UK’.

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Principles of protein structure: an established Internet-based course in structural biology

Research in Learning Technology ◽

10.3402/rlt.v8i2.11989 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Clare Sansom ◽

David Moss

Keyword(s):

Protein Structure ◽

New Technologies ◽

Virtual Education ◽

The Internet ◽

Educational Materials ◽

Birkbeck College ◽

Face To Face ◽

Traditional Courses ◽

University Level ◽

The Uk

The Internet is becoming an important medium for the delivery of educational materials. However, relatively few institutions are delivering whole courses using this medium. More often, the technologies are used to complement traditional courses, which may be given face-to-face or at a distance (Farrell, 1999). The Department of Crystallography at Birkbeck College, London, has been in the vanguard of the development of 'virtual education', providing some of the first accredited postgraduate courses in the UK to be offered entirely using the new technologies. For the past four years, we have been running an Advanced Certificate course entitled 'Principles of Protein Structure using the Internet'1 (Sansom, Walshaw and Moss, 1997) (PPS). See http://www.cryst.bbk.aauk/pps for more details. This was one of the first tutor-assisted, accredited, university-level courses to be taught entirely over the Internet, and is certainly the first in biochemistry in the UK.DOI:10.1080/0968776000080204

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Why Brexit Will Do Little to Change the Political Contours of the European Social Dimension

Politics and Governance ◽

10.17645/pag.v7i3.2126 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 30-39

Author(s):

Paul Copeland

Keyword(s):

Social Policy ◽

Good Reason ◽

Step Change ◽

European Council ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Major Obstacle ◽

Political Agency ◽

The Political ◽

The Uk ◽

The Eu

Integration within the European social dimension, understood as the EU’s competence in the field of employment and social policy, has been fraught with obstacles. Divisions between the EU’s Member States have limited integration and resulted in a complex and piecemeal system of governance that is low down on the EU’s list of priorities. The UK is often regarded as a major obstacle limiting the scope of integration in the field and this is not without good reason. Historically, the UK has formed coalitions to block policy negotiations within the European Council and has pushed for minimal neoliberal obligations in the field. The UK’s departure from the EU could result in a step-change for the European social dimension. However, as this article will argue, the UK’s departure from the EU will do little to alter the current dominance of a neoliberal market-led ideology, as it currently transcends the political agency of the UK.

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Critical Thinking-Related Challenges to Academic Writing: A Case of Indonesian Postgraduate Students at a UK University

Lingua Cultura ◽

10.21512/lc.v13i1.5122 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 107 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Udi Samanhudi ◽

Caroline Linse

Keyword(s):

Critical Thinking ◽

Academic Writing ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Critical Evaluation ◽

Main Method ◽

Essay Writing ◽

Postgraduate Students ◽

University Level ◽

The Uk ◽

Interviewing Technique

This research reported Indonesian students’ perspectives on challenges in writing a critical academic essay and factors causing those challenges in a university in the UK. It was a qualitative method in nature and used a semi-structured interviewing technique with open-ended questions as the main method for data collection. The results indicate four main problems the participants’ encountered in relation to critical thinking realization in their essay writing which include clarity of ideas presented, lack of critical analysis, lack of critical evaluation, and lack of precision. This research also finds three important factors causing those problems of critical thinking realization by the students in their essay writings namely lack critical awareness, lack of understanding of the critical thinking concept, and differences of academic requirements between Indonesian and British context. This research is expectedly useful as an input in the re-design of syllabi and in the improvement of writing instruction that aims to promote especially international Indonesian students’ critical thinking in university-level education, in line with properly addressing students’ needs and developing CT pedagogy in the site.

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The Apothecary by M. Meloy

The Deakin Review of Children s Literature ◽

10.20361/g23k73 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Maria Tan

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Los Angeles ◽

Good Reason ◽

Critical Role ◽

Public Library ◽

Read Aloud ◽

Black And White ◽

Nuclear Disaster ◽

The Uk ◽

Guggenheim Fellowship

Meloy, Maile. The Apothecary. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 2011. Print.A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Los Angeles-based Maile Meloy is an acclaimed author of novels and short stories for adults. In 2007, she was named one of Granta’s 21 Best Young American Novelists. With The Apothecary, Ms. Meloy makes her entrance into book writing for a young adult audience.The Apothecary won the 2011 E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, Middle Reader category (coincidentally, the other winner that year was Wildwood, a book written by the author’s brother). Publishers Weekly, the Chicago Public Library, and Booktrust in the UK all declared The Apothecary as one of the best children’s books of 2011. Set in the mid-1900s, The Apothecary is a work of historical fiction that that takes place during the Cold War era. Fourteen-year-old Janie Scott is followed home from school one day by US Marshals, then her parents suddenly decide to move the family to London. Uprooted from her home in Hollywood, Janie receives an unusual cure for homesickness from the local apothecary. She meets Benjamin, the apothecary’s son, who takes a dim view of his father’s drug store and is much more interested in becoming an agent of the Secret Intelligence Service than aspiring to the profession of apothecary.In a cloak and dagger turn of events, Benjamin’s father is kidnapped and Janie and Benjamin are entrusted with protecting the Pharmacopeia, a book containing alchemical recipes. Along the way, they connect with a young pickpocket named Pip - the intrepid trio search for Benjamin’s father, outmaneuvering Russian spies, and playing a critical role in averting nuclear disaster. The themes of espionage, magic and mystery, with hints of romance will engage a range of readers. Ian Schoenherr’s black and white illustrations herald the start of each chapter and complement Meloy’s sombre and suspenseful tale.Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Maria TanMaria is a Public Services Librarian at the University of Alberta’s H. T. Coutts Education Library. She enjoys travelling and visiting unique and far-flung libraries. An avid foodie, Maria’s motto is, “There’s really no good reason to stop the flow of snacks”.

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