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Pleasure principles
Gary Day delights in a critique that sweeps aside the perceived gulf between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture
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Read it, don’t weep
Felicity James toasts an ideal introduction to critical analysis and a subtle reader’s skills
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Ghosts in the machines
Angela Vanhaelen on the fascination and fear aroused by 18th-century mechanical figures
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Ofsted gives poor marks
Universities may lose places over reported falls in teacher training standards. John Morgan writes
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Novel Science: Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth Century Geology, by Adelene Buckland
Euan Clarkson discusses a scientific discipline’s literary foundations
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Roman Fever: Influence, Infection, and the Image of Rome, 1700-1870, by Richard Wrigley
Richard Bosworth on the ‘bad air’ of Rome and how it influenced artists and travellers
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The week in higher education - 25 July 2013
Universities and science minister David Willetts faces a long summer of uncertainty after David Cameron postponed a planned reshuffle that many observers predicted would see his two brains swapped...
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Two brains has been all ears, too
David Willetts is a rare politician who thinks and listens. It would be a blow to the sector if he were replaced
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University pressured me to quit anti-bypass fight
Lecturer was told he had ‘no future’ at Aberdeen if he continued battle
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Research councils on target for efficiency gains
Savings are expected to surpass government goal
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Funding for UK higher education shifts up a gear
Funding for research undertaken in UK higher education has risen by 86 per cent in real terms since 1995, data from the National Audit Office show
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Critics sceptical that EPSRC will act on review findings
Report calls for a more ‘transparent and inclusive’ structure, but scientists await council’s response
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News in brief - 25 July 2013
SyriaViolence bad-mouths violenceA Syrian university has stripped the Turkish prime minister of an honorary doctorate because of his support for Syrian rebels and his crackdown on Turkish protesters...