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This guidance for university tutors is taken from a 1674 book, Firmianus and Dubitantius, which consists of “certain dialogues concerning atheism, infidelity, popery, and other heresies and schisms...
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How bonny does Scotland appear to foreign beaux?
Economists dispute degree to which universities attract overseas investors. David Matthews writes
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THE Scholarly Web - Professor who lived and died on the poverty line
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Awards and promotions
University College LondonDilly FungOn being offered the position of director of University College London’s Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, Dilly Fung immediately thought of her...
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Obituary - Marshall Berman
An American political scientist and social critic whose writings were acclaimed by Christopher Hitchens as “scholarly but jargon-free, anchored in modern references but with a strong sense of history...
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Novel argument
Robert Eaglestone on a bravura exploration of the most demanding subject in literary criticism
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Typical small-town broad-mindedness
Small towns were often accommodating to those without a straight sensibility, finds Sally R. Munt
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Privacy and Media Freedom, by Raymond Wacks
Arne Hintz welcomes a timely contribution to the post-Leveson debate
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The Future Is Not What it Used to Be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity, by Jörg Friedrichs
Jon Turney is dispirited by the rhetoric of collapse in a sober analysis of two global crises
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Do put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington
Hayley Jayne Bradley on theatre’s love/hate relationship with victims, vixens and transgressors
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Power Beyond Scrutiny: Media Justice and Accountability, by Justin Schlosberg
Ivor Gaber on how broadcasters report stories in which the status quo is under threat
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Mozart’s Ghosts: Haunting the Halls of Musical Culture, by Mark Everist
Mark Berry on what lies behind the modern reverence for Mozart’s music
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Campus round-up
Eggs benedictionA research project is under way that aims to shed light on how the relationship between humans and chickens has developed over the past 8,000 years. Led by Mark Maltby, reader in...
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Official history of Blighty’s propaganda machine
Project unveiled to give Ministry of Information the historical treatment. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
ChinaUS joint venture gets green lightThe Chinese government has formally approved the establishment of a new institution created jointly by a US and a Chinese university. Duke Kunshan University, a...