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Painful legacy: US academy confronts slave-holding past
On the northern edge of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a statue of a Confederate soldier stands sentry, rifle at the ready. Given to the university in 1913 by the...
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Competition will be Willetts’ fee fighter
To keep prices down, loans will be extended to private-sector students and caps on places will be loosened, but minister wants more time to prepare White Paper
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Hefce likely to lessen the impact
Research “impact” will count for less than the proposed 25 per cent in the research excellence framework, funding chiefs are expected to confirm next week.
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A weather eye on the US storm
As graduation rates shrink and tuition fees and student debts soar in the US, experts call on the UK sector to heed lessons from the world's academic powerhouse. Sarah Cunnane reports
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The pursuit of hire education
Prospective students' increased focus on graduate employment prospects and salaries in the wake of tuition fee rises will have profound repercussions for the sector in terms of setting fees, argues...
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The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
Lucy Wooding praises a compelling study of the evolving significance of the land's sacred features
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Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art and Arson in the Convents of Italy
Mary Laven enjoys an original account of alleged cloistered crime and use of the 'diabolical arts'
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Much Ado About (Practically) Nothing: A History of the Noble Gases
The noble gases are the silent onlookers of the chemical world. Atoms of helium, neon, argon, krypton and radon have electrons, in the negatively charged cloud smeared around their nuclei, in just...
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The Politics of Literature
Jacques Rancière is increasingly highly thought of by anglophone literary critics and theorists. He has a reputation as a radical thinker, both intellectually and politically: he was a collaborator...
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The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini
James Delbourgo admires an enlightened woman of science who became a fixture of the Grand Tour
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Do Llamas Fall in Love? 33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles
Do Llamas Fall in Love? has almost nothing to do with llamas, but plenty to do with love, especially that love of wisdom that is philosophy. This smart and funny jaunt through philosophy's core...
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The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
Back in the mid-19th century, the Prussian nationalist historian Heinrich von Treitschke asserted that "it is men who make history". A century later, Fernand Braudel, the Annales School historian,...
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Chthonic and iconic
David Walsh, the multimillionaire gambler turned cultural patron, has dug deep for art - literally. Peter Hill descends into the heart of the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania
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Diary
LondonLearning to Dwell: Adolf Loos in the Czech LandsPioneering modernist architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) is probably most famous for work in Vienna such as the Cafe Museum and the Karntner (...