Former Leeds student loses appeal against removal of PhD scholarship
Sanaz Raji criticises eight-month wait for decision from the Office of the Independent Adjudicator
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Cinematic deconstruction: Derrida gets a close-up
Film draws on 1980 work to expose philosopher’s ideas to general audience
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Rwanda in Photographs: Death Then, Life Now
Shahidha Bari finds vivid and lurid representations of the unnerving normality of the everyday in today’s Rwanda
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Sara Clethero, David Eastwood, George McKay, Diane Richardson and Sharon Ruston…
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer’s, by Dick Swaab
Tristan Bekinschtein would prefer to see all the evidence considered when determining what makes us the way we are
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Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World, by Mitchell Stephens
Gavin Hyman on the importance of atheistic thought in human cultural development
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Žižek’s Jokes (Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?), by Slavoj Žižek
Robert Eaglestone bridles at provocative, yet tired, ‘quips’ from the Elvis of philosophers
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The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews, by Bernard Wasserstein
Victoria Harris longs for more illumination in history of an unsung wartime heroine
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Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Soul, by Peter Tyler
Jane Shaw praises a subtle and emotionally astute reading of the saint’s language of the spirit
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Me and my PhD supervisor: tales of love and loathing
Academics discuss how supervisors shaped their teaching
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Five of the most striking university libraries you will ever see
In an increasingly digital world, libraries are surplus to requirements, right? According to the Voices for the Library campaign, more than 10 per cent of the UK’s public libraries are currently at...
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Universities warned over ‘sleepwalking’ into Ofsted-style regime
Higher education may be “sleepwalking” towards a new quality control system based on Ofsted-style inspections, a leading sector figure has warned.
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Ed Miliband talks of ‘radical offer’ on fees
Could remark be hint of policy shift towards graduate tax?
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Marking boycott plea by Dundee students
Letters asks UCU and Ucea to resolve differences
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Willetts does not rule out fees rise
Labour on the attack as RAB nears ‘break-even point’