THE podcast: 23-29 October 2014 issue review
Download the podcastConcerns about the effectiveness of an immigration working group, this week’s Times Higher Education books section, the increasing monitoring of scholars’ work and Arizona State...
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University levy on graduates could end taxpayer ‘burden’ - thinktank
Public funding for universities should be scrapped and replaced by graduates paying an earnings levy to their institutions, according to a thinktank.
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Object lessons: 100 examples of the stuff history was made on
Rebecca Onion on the pros and cons of scholarship as listicle
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Janet Beer, Tim Birkhead, Stephen Halliday, Nigel Rodenhurst and Jon Turney...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World, by Adrienne Mayor
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on a merging of the sexy myth of superwomen and history of nomadic fighters
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Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid, by Emma A. Jane and Chris Fleming
Rachel Hoffman on a reconceptualisation of conspiracy theory and its role in the modern world
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Play Matters, by Miguel Sicart
Steve Redhead on a discussion of play as a means of interacting with the world around us
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Zombies and Calculus, by Colin Adams
Maths problems are given an unusual twist when the living dead invade, says Noel-Ann Bradshaw
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University Fundraising in Britain: A Transatlantic Partnership, by William Squire
Dale Cooper on the methods of philanthropy in universities and how the UK has learned from the US tradition
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The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb, by Stanley Plumly
Shahidha Bari on a notorious meeting of three of the great Romantics and the almost-forgotten figure who brought them together
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What about Mozart? What about Murder?: Reasoning from Cases, by Howard Becker
Now in his ninth decade, sociologist Howard Becker has produced a classic, writes Les Gofton
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The Struggle For Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics, by Ayesha Jalal
Farzana Shaikh on a retread of a historian’s former work on Pakistan
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Father and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science, by Ann Oakley
E. Stina Lyon admires a hybrid of personal memoir and post-war English social history
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Points mean prizes
“Please don’t compare Poppleton with other universities.”That was the vigorous response of Louise Bimpson to suggestions that the Metrics system of Academic Staff Evaluation (MASE) at our university...
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UK ‘privileged partner’ for Science Without Borders
Donna Bowater reports from Rio de Janeiro on plans to extend Brazil’s international mobility scheme to 100,000 more students