Only some get to choose
Recreating a two-tier system is only benefiting ‘the best’, says Malcolm Gillies
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Zoë Svendsen on the dramaturge’s role at the heart of the action
The ‘creative consultant’ at work in the National Theatre’s new production of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II
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Roger Brown, Amanda Leigh Cox, Rebecca Huxley-Binns, R. C. Richardson and Sharon Wheeler...
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Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea, by Sheila Miyoshi Jager
Korea was divided by a struggle for legitimacy that resonates still, writes Marilyn Young
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Household Politics: Conflict in Early Modern England, by Don Herzog
Lucy Wooding reviews an analysis of the culture of early modern England
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State puts weight behind teaching qualification data
Academics fear thin end of wedge
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Six conference questions every academic hears
Allan Johnson on the misunderstood B-sides of conference presentations
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Robert Zemsky’s solution for US problems
Plan to make higher education sustainable requires a simultaneous attack on three big problems, says expert
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Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of America, by Harel Shapira
Lee Maril is riveted by a first-time academic author’s encounters with the men and women who patrol the Arizona-Mexico border
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Ending Terrorism in Italy, by Anna Cento Bull and Philip Cooke
Ilaria Favretto on how the ‘years of lead’ were brought to a close
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Thomas Hardy: The World of His Novels, by J. B. Bullen
Jane Thomas takes the Wessex trail
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Law after Modernity, by Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
Michael King is unconvinced by the case for postmodern justice
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Private providers to get ABB advantage over public peers
BIS applies cap in 2014, but with terms allowing ‘back door’ expansion
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The week in higher education - 29 August 2013
The Russell Group took some flak in the letters page of The Guardian on 23 August. Readers objected that it was “not true” to say that the group’s universities “are the best” and took issue with its...
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They’re all in it together
The coalition wants competition to shake up higher education, but could a cooperative model also be worth exploring?