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David Willetts wants more of them, but how much is really known about the UK's private providers? John Morgan uncovers a melange of institutions in a diverse and diversifying sector unbound by caps...
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Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate
Mary Warnock navigates the moral questions that come to bear on the having of children
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Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor
Sketches of a street where Boz grew up - and a place that scarred him - captivate Valerie Sanders
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The Russian Origins of the First World War
Who was responsible for the First World War? That Germany was largely to blame has become the established view, but Sean McMeekin points his finger at a different culprit, Russia. His thesis is...
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Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music
Jennifer Lena attempts to take on two of popular music's most regularly debated areas and get to the heart of the problems in previous scholarship. Given that academics working in different areas of...
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Eva Aldea is intrigued by an account of our enduring fascination with barbarous images
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The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800
William Monter's subject is female kings: a contradiction in terms, one might think. But as he points out, the word "queen", from the Anglo-Saxon cwén, in origin means a king's wife, not a female...
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Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human: Past, Present and Future
As its title indicates, this book is an attempt to unravel what it means to be human in the past, present and future. Its ambition is to provide "a comprehensive set of historical, philosophical and...
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African leader wants end to 'slave trade' in education
Head of universities group criticises self-interest of 'globalising' institutions. Phil Baty writes
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Higher entry tariffs to show Greenwich means 'quality'
V-c set to boost research strength and speak 'the right language' to students. Jack Grove reports
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Cool but cruel: creative industries' toxic fallout
Society needs to look beyond the images of "cool", "unconventional" creative workers and find better ways for them, and for academics, to lead "liveable lives", a speaker at the British Academy...
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News in brief
IndiaHigher lab bench benchmarksA leading academic has urged India to strengthen science teaching in schools and universities to improve the country's research and attract overseas students. Baldev...
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Texas hold-up: legal challenge to affirmative action
Selecting students on the basis of race in the US could be outlawed if a Supreme Court action is successful.
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTMajor Research Fellowships• Award winner: Chandak Sengoopta• Institution: Birkbeck, University of London• Value: £138,617Satyajit Ray: lives, dilemmas, reputationsPhilip Leverhulme...
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Speculation grows that Gove is making play for academy brief
Conservative education secretary is said to be pushing for oversight of higher education. Simon Baker reports