China: Visions Through the Ages, edited by Lisa C. Niziolek, Deborah A. Bekken and Gary Feinman
Sinophiles will find much to admire in this deeply learned treasure trove, writes Jonathan Mirsky
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Fray: Art and Textile Politics, by Julia Bryan-Wilson
Shahidha Bari on an idiosyncratic book that attempts to understand the politics of textile culture
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What are you reading? – 19 April 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Following the footprints of spies on campus
From MI5 recruiting, to students spying on each other and intelligence agencies funding research, Matthew Reisz explores the long and often uneasy relationship between espionage and the academy
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To Dare More Boldly: The Audacious Story of Political Risk, by John C. Hulsman
A. W. Purdue ponders a historical comparison of advisers to the world’s movers and shakers
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Shadows of Empire: The Anglosphere in British Politics, by Michael Kenny and Nick Pearce
Joanna Lewis considers a work that follows the lineage of a British foreign policy that focused on promoting economic and cultural ties with other English-speaking nations
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Books editor’s blog: Want a kinder academy? Be more medieval
One scholar believes the 15th-century Christian mystic Margery Kempe could provide ‘inspiration for a radical reimagining’ of what it means to be an academic, one ‘unafraid to shed a few tears’
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The week in higher education – 19 April 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Long live lifelong learning
The tabloid campaign to save the Open University has forced ministers to review a crisis precipitated by their party’s higher education policy, writes John Gill
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Laurie Taylor – 19 April 2018
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Horrocks was not behind all of OU’s problems
It takes me a little effort to write in justification of Peter Horrocks, who has resigned as vice-chancellor of the Open University, having criticised him in the past. But there are two things to say...
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Careful, claimants
While the result of the University and College Union pensions ballot was awaited, the Office for Students published on its website “Guidance for students affected by recent industrial action in...
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Entitlement culture
The article “An inflated sense of self overshadows Gen Z’s work ethic” (Opinion, 29 March) cites the study “Her majesty the student: marketised higher education and the narcissistic (dis)...