The Roma: A Balkan Underclass, by Jelena Čvorović
Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik baulks at the questionable assertions in a polemic about traveller communities
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Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba, by Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick
Joanna Lewis on the assassination of the nation’s first democratically elected leader
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Anthropology’s A level does not deserve the axe
The AQA decision to end a promising trial of the subject does a disservice to students, the discipline and the UK, says Joy Hendry
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Genius is so last season
Deifying young fashion designers does them no favours and slights the many who make their work possible, says Sally Feldman
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Landmarks, by Robert Macfarlane
Laurence Coupe relishes inspiring reflections on the natural world’s relationship with language
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Scrapping fee subsidy is no guarantee of windfall for Welsh academy
Ending support for cross-border students does not mean tuition fee cash would be reinvested in institutions, report warns
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Black PhD students are pioneers in their subjects, says professor
Hakim Adi urges early career researchers at first meeting of Black Doctoral Network UK to be resilient when facing difficulties
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Hannah Arendt: thinking versus evil
Jon Nixon asks what Arendt’s work can tell us about the value of universities as places of thinking together
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Private college’s visa licence suspended as BIS and QAA launch inquiries
Two government departments and watchdog investigate St Patrick’s College
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Reform of research funding formula will benefit elites, says REF critic
Division as scholars analyse Hefce’s system for dividing £1 billion QR pot
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It was there all the time!
Our Deputy Head of REF Strategy, Brian Bryan, has expressed “absolute delight” at the news that the high-powered research panels set up to detect “impact” in the 2014 research excellence framework...
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Barroso sees lessons for European universities from his US vantage
Continent must learn to maximise research strengths, says former European Commission president turned ‘accidental academic’
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Lower scores for Asian staff on Rate My Professors website
Postgrad’s study questions reliability of results on staff evaluation website as US students seek ‘easiest A’
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Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure, by Cédric Villani
The lows and highs of a ‘rock star’ scholar cracking an impossible problem enthral Noel-Ann Bradshaw
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Owning up to the bias in all of us
We need an honest conversation about unconscious prejudices and how they can hold back individuals and their work