All in a don's day. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mary Beard.
• Other Names: Beard, Mary, 1955-
• Contents: Cover Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Introduction; How rich are Cambridge students?; Dixon of Dock Green on-line; Transparency is the new opacity; The laughter lover; Hestons Roman feast; Should schools teach Twittering?; The history girls vs. David Starkey; Pirates? Try the Pompey-the-Great solution?; Literary ladies at Cambridge -- and who's minding the baby?; Does College need a new grace?; Christianity banned; Exam nightmares; How do examiners mark exams?; Graduation: no animals killed; Was Alexander the Great a Slav?; Ten Latin quotes for the underground. What were job references like in the old days?WHO says British universities are complacent?; Ten things you shouldn't believe about A levels; Sex with students? Is Terence Kealey as misunderstood as Juvenal?; Did Portnoy's Complaint deserve the 'Booker Prize'?; Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo: what was Catullus on about?; Should the Rosetta Stone go back ... where?; What to cut in universities?; Are you at risk of plagiarism?; How many references do you write in a week?; How to lose an election -- the Roman (or Nicholas Winterton) way; Lecturers -- beware germs. Why 'good practice' can ruin good practiceAnd the prize for the worst manifesto goes to ... ; Ten dotty (well-meaning?) ideas from the party election manifestos; Do we need bad teachers?; Civilian casualties, leaks and the ancient view; The politics of Britain's brainiest cemetery; Museum parties: balls, dances, conferences and the great and the good; World-class universities vs. the Human Resources Compliance Unit; Bedding down in the Library; Students occupy the Senate House; Student occupation: the dilemmas; Can black kids get into Cambridge?; A pig for a present. What's wrong with government by petition?To tweet or not to tweet?; The Colossi of Memnon? When are graffiti not graffiti?; Universities, despots and plagiarism; BAFTAs and Emmys; The sentence for 'serious' rape?; Not winning a BAFTA (... phew???); Young minds ... and the dirty bits (in Aristophanes); Dream School goes to the Education Select Committee; Exam speak; Why bother to visit the Colosseum?; From El Bulli to Apicius; The Cambridge Chancellor election -- in 1847; The Africa Museum in Brussels -- and David Starkey; Why does the Manneken Pis?; Fed up with the REF ... and what about the babies? What Tony Blair should have written to Saif GaddafiNisi dominus frustra: why ditch a motto?; Filming: the boot on the other foot; AD VS. CE; First-year Ancient History at Newnham. What do we do?; Who gives a stuf about the Act of Settlement?; Better a dictator than a technocrat; Online etiquette; Educational tourism; Juliet's balcony; Christmas tradition -- and innovation; Five thoughts on getting to 57; Aferword; Acknowledgements; Picture Credits.
• Publisher Details: London : Profile
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (311 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 828.9208; Classical philology -- Miscellanea; Women classicists -- Miscellanea; Latin literature -- Miscellanea; LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Classical philology; Latin literature; Women classicists; Electronic books; Blogs; Trivia and miscellanea; Blogs
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847658630; 1847658636
• Related ISBNs: 9781846685361; 1846685362
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.