Letters
Counterpoints to the 10 point presentationMost of Tara Brabazon’s 10 tips for PhD students (11 July) are sound advice, but the headline “10 truths a supervisor will never tell you” is unfair. “10...
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The way we were
In just over half a century, the cohort entering higher education has risen from under 5 per cent to nearly 50 per cent of the UK¹s young people, changing the face of the academy for ever. Five...
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Many call, few are chosen
Ivy League institutions employ an array of tactics to ‘craft’ diverse student intakes. But how fair is their system, and should it be adopted in the UK as some have suggested? Jon Marcus investigates
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Shrew observations
Tragedy, comedy, genial farce? The challenge of how to present Katherina’s submission has left its mark on three recent Shrews at the Globe, and thereby hangs a tale, Liz Schafer observes
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Laurie Taylor
Must try harder“It is very disappointing news for all those who care about the future of university administration going forward.”That was the reaction of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate...
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Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, by Daniel C. Dennett
Constantine Sandis on Darwin’s dangerous ideas man
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Crowdsourcing, by Daren C. Brabham
John Gilbey on a stimulating discussion of the definition of a widely used term
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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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...