Continental drift
David Willetts, in the recently published pamphlet Robbins Revisited: Bigger and Better Higher Education (Social Market Foundation), makes three references to Europe. That puts him ahead of an...
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Hope for convicts via fashion outreach
Students work with female prisoners on The Beauty’s Inside project
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Jeremy Black, Avril Goodwin, Stephen Halliday, A. W. Purdue and June Purvis...
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Blue Mythologies: Reflections on a Colour, by Carol Mavor
Philip Hoare floats away on a poetic enquiry into the extraordinary nature of what surrounds us
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, by Lila Abu-Lughod
The convictions of those involved in efforts to ‘rescue’ women from religion will be unsettled by this work, says Madawi Al-Rasheed
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Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality, by Edward Frenkel
Noel-Ann Bradshaw on a work that unlocks maths’ power and beauty by weaving it into an inspirational autobiography
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The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century, by David Reynolds
Alex Danchev on how Britain has remembered and misremembered the First World War
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Shakespeare and Memory, by Hester Lees-Jeffries
Jerome de Groot on time, recollection and the Bard
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Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants, by Sunil Amrith
Caroline Osella on a page-turning survey of people and politics in a region once at the heart of global trade and imperial histories
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How the College of Europe brings a continent together
New rector Jörg Monar discusses the unique institution’s mission and challenges
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Major gift to boost research into Britain’s depleted forests
Birmingham receives £15 million from former student
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THE podcast: Ben Nelson interview
Download the podcastBen Nelson is founder and chief executive officer of the Minerva Project, which is aiming to offer students an “Ivy League” education using online lectures, and with no campus.In...
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Oxford building named after Baroness Thatcher
The University of Oxford has named a new building after the late Baroness Thatcher
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Researchers ‘should be given leeway’ on open access
UK researchers should be permitted to publish in top international journals even if those journals are not compliant with open-access mandates.
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Ucet calls for breakdown of teacher training data
The government has been accused of preventing a “timely and legitimate analysis” of data on next year’s teacher training places.