The week in higher education - 30 May 2013
If it had wanted to, the Home Office could have issued a loud raspberry to its critics in the higher education sector after figures showed a rise in visa applications for university study. Overall...
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Roger Brown, Sylvia Brown, Michael Patrick Cullinane, Sandra Leaton Gray and Gordon Thomas...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History by Derek Sayer
Marta Filipová on compelling tales of a city’s artistic, intellectual and political cultures
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Northern Ireland: The Reluctant Peace by Feargal Cochrane
Cheryl Lawther on a history of the conflict and peace process and how the past continues to affect current attitudes
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Top Student, Top School? How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go To College by Alexandria Walton Radford
Sandra Leaton Gray on inequality in access to higher education in the US as a result of class
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Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information by Malcolm McCullough
Tara Brabazon on a rare and evocative exploration of how to cope with digital overload
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Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship by John B. Radner
Willy Maley finds men behaving badly in this compelling account of a literary coupling
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Weird Life: The Search for Life that is Very, Very Different From Our Own by David Toomey
Lewis Dartnell regrets that a discussion of extreme life forms focuses on faint possibility rather than wondrous reality
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Youth unsure of university cost-benefit analysis
Tuition fees major concern for schoolchildren, Sutton Trust discovers
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Judgment on plagiarism: it’s for academics to judge
OIA can overrule verdicts only in rare circumstances, High Court finds
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Dame not keen on XX quota system
Edinburgh Napier’s outgoing v-c rejects ‘tick-box’ approach to governance
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Odds and quads - 30 May 2013
Source: UCL Library Services 2011Moses Gaster (1856-1939) was a Jewish communal leader, a prominent Zionist and a prolific scholar of Romanian literature and folklore, Samaritan history and...
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News in brief - 30 May 2013
Exam howlersTasty morsels from the buffet zoneWith the marking season well and truly under way, Times Higher Education is making its annual call for entries to its “exam howlers” competition, in...
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The horrifying fascination of Titus Andronicus
A new production of Shakespeare’s brutal play continues to elicit disquieting questions about moral values