Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths, by Emily Katz Anhalt
Book of the week: Classical heroes can teach modern society much about anger management, notes Barbara Graziosi
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What are you reading? – 14 December 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Books interview: Rosie Findlay
The lecturer in cultural and historical studies and author of Personal Style Blogs on pony tales, reading fashion and fashioning the self
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Governors unaware of university mission have fuelled pay crisis
Outrage over vice-chancellors’ remuneration has focused on individuals – but the buck stops with governors
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Laurie Taylor – 14 December 2017
Absent blushes What special qualities make an ideal vice-chancellor? According to Dr Mike Goshworthy of our Department of Social Psychology, a truly modern vice-chancellor must be free from an...
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Sexual advancement
The feature “Cultures of denial” (16 November) explored the question of whether academia had a culture of denial around sexual misconduct. There are many elements to the issue, but one often goes...
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Books reviewers
In “The REF is mistaken: monographs are not inferior to papers” (Opinion, 7 December), Bruce Macfarlane argues that the research excellence framework is eroding the value of books in the humanities...
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Biblical illiteracy
If Cedarville University is intent on implementing a “biblically consistent curriculum” (“New teaching policy ‘confuses education with indoctrination’”, News, 30 November) that leaves plenty of room...
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Let the REF games begin
Universities hoping to submit staff who have already left are going to have to work hard on maintaining goodwill, says Robert Dingwall
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David Willetts: ‘I plead guilty’ on part-time student decline
MPs also hear Lord Browne say government changes to his review’s system meant ‘it started not working’