Samuel Pepys and His Books: Reading, Newsgathering, and Sociability, 1660-1703, by Kate Loveman
Peter J. Smith on what books collections tell us about the collector
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From France with Love: Gender and Identity in French Romantic Comedy, by Mary Harrod
Gemma Edney on the arguments for the academic study of a genre too often dismissed for being à l’Américaine
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Intelligence in the Flesh: Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More than It Thinks, by Guy Claxton
From emotions to waiting tables, our physical frame deserves more credit, finds Joanna Bryson
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The week in higher education – 17 September 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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What are you reading? – 17 September 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Eternal dilemmas: interview with Mark Edmundson
Are you an idealist or a pragmatist? In his latest book, Self and Soul, Edmundson aims to provide fresh insights into how we might choose to live our lives
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What academics really do on their summer ‘holidays’
A long break sounds luxurious but what is the reality? Scholars share what they did with their ‘free’ time
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US postgraduate enrolment sees biggest rise since 2009
International students accounted for over two-thirds of the growth in enrolments in past decade, says study
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Quality assessment must be more than a tick-box process
Hefce chief Madeleine Atkins on what a simpler, less burdensome QA system might look like
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The world’s most innovative universities
US institutions top the inaugural Reuters Top 100 Most Innovative Universities table
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Exeter ‘Settler Colonialism in Palestine’ event to go ahead
University negotiates compromise deal over controversial conference
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The pleasures (and surprises) of interviewing academics
Matthew Reisz celebrates the joys of profiling scholars
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News blog: Sajid Javid and Jo Johnson take higher education to market
BIS aims to step up competition for universities from new providers – but questions remain about impact on UK higher education
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Gap between education of aboriginal and non-aboriginal people in Canada widening
Study finds proportion of non-aboriginal people in the country graduating from university is improving at a faster rate
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Brian Cox: new freeze in research funding would be ‘dire’ for UK science
Physicist warns that the UK’s high scientific output is based on investment made ‘decades’ ago