Donald McNeill, 1936-2017
Tributes paid to Catholic priest who founded Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns

Tributes paid to Catholic priest who founded Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns

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Andrew Adonis’s account of how Labour could fund universities if tuition fees were abolished lacks credibility, says David Willetts

Books editor Matthew Reisz finds the philosopher and social theorist Jonathan Dollimore’s memoir a fascinating confessional despite its omission of his life in work

Protest movement against racial oppression in US belongs to a long tradition, says Martin Myers

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Britain has a remarkably strong higher education system that makes it a world-leading player, and it requires tending, not trashing
The news about India’s shelving its foreign universities “pipe dream” in favour of the creation of new domestic “institutions of eminence” (“India shelves its foreign universities ‘pipe dream’”, News...
I wonder whether “another academic”, whose letter “State of the uni” bemoaned the “ludicrous amount of paperwork” in UK higher education (Letters, 24 August), could be induced to divulge which...
In her review of Janet Sorensen’s Strange Vernaculars, Elspeth Jajdelska says the book “explains how the speech of criminals, provincials, the labouring classes and sailors was recreated in print to...
Emma Rees rightly pleads for a summer holiday away from “Lacan, Kristeva and Foucault too…” (“Crumbs of comfort on the beach”, 24 August). Don’t we all need a break as well from Saussure, the father...