Email from Ngeti: An Ethnography of Sorcery, Redemption, and Friendship in Global Africa, by James H. Smith and Ngeti Mwadime
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Will universities’ bullying boomerang?
Legal scholars say threats to sue individual academics over industrial action may expose institutions to greater liability
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20 November 2014
Novel take - John Sutherland, Sarah Churchwell and others on fiction that captures truths about the sector
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Sir David Bell, E. Stina Lyon, June Purvis, Sharon Wheeler and Richard Whittle...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Carol Lancaster, 1942-2014
A leading figure in American foreign policy and a long-term dean at Georgetown University, who was described by Hillary Clinton as “a true champion for human development and women’s progress”, has...
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Q&A with Paul Boyle
We speak to the new vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester and former chief executive of the ESRC
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A significant step towards a mature Scottish model of higher education
Ferdinand von Prondzynski welcomes planned legislation that addresses key university governance issues
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World in brief - 20 November 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesOverseas student numbers on the riseThe number of international students starting courses at US universities has increased by 7.5 per cent in the space of a year. Some 0,128...
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Grant winners - 20 November 2014
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilTechnology ProgrammeAward winner: Mark PlumbleyInstitution: Queen Mary University of LondonValue: £77,443Audio data exploration: new insights and...
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News in brief - 20 November 2014
European CommissionChief scientist role scrappedScientists and science bodies have reacted with dismay to the decision by the European Commission to axe the post of chief scientific adviser. The role...
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Librarians are just the job
As I sit in the Medical Library of the University of Cambridge pondering the outbreak of the Ebola virus, a librarian is giving skills training to two postgraduates, one postgrad is writing a paper...
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Revisionist view of closure
As someone who has studied the field of international relations, Steve Smith will be well acquainted with the idea of regimes trying to rewrite history for their own purpose. So it is that since 2005...
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Standard measures
A revealing approach to tackling the challenge of the relative standard of degrees (“Unknown qualities”, Features, 13 November) might be to require universities to publish not just syllabuses but...
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Now is the time to call pensions conference
We are dismayed to see that the University and College Union has proposed a career revalued benefits scheme for pensions that, if accepted, would considerably worsen our terms and conditions of...
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I can see clearly now!
Source: AlamySuggestions that Plymouth University is currently beset by “uncertainty” after the recent return to office of its vice-chancellor, Wendy Purcell, have been described as “maliciously...