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Professors should provide intellectual leadership, but some incumbents have other priorities or misunderstand their role. Bruce Macfarlane asserts that universities must find a way to get the best...
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Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
Alessandra Tosi on a must-read for the massed ranks who fret about the future of the humanities
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The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism From Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin
It is ideology, not ignorance, that connects diverse groups on the political Right, finds Joanna Bourke
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The Ascent of the Detective: Police Sleuths in Victorian and Edwardian England
When the first detective branch of the Metropolitan Police was formed in 1842, the new "Peelers" had existed for 13 years and were just shaking off a reputation as spies and quasi-military bullies....
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Venice Disputed: Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture, 1550-1600
By focusing on one of Venice's 16th-century patricians, Marc'Antonio Barbaro, his political career and patronage, this book analyses the debates that fuelled international diplomacy and Venice's...
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A Culture of Freedom: Ancient Greece and the Origins of Europe
Barbara Graziosi on a grand historical narrative that fails to recognise the widespread roots of Europe
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Moscow, The Fourth Rome: Stalinism, Cosmopolitanism, and the Evolution of Soviet Culture, 1931-1941
Exactly halfway through Moscow, The Fourth Rome, we read that "1935 might be described as the high point of Soviet internationalism". This assertion flies in the face of conventional historiography,...
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Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security
With Worlds Apart: Bosnian Lessons for Global Security, the philanthropist, academic and former US ambassador to Austria, Swanee Hunt, has made an interesting and somewhat unusual contribution to a...
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Off-site store causes problems after Soas Library refurb cuts capacity. Matthew Reisz writes
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Court of law rules that complaints watchdog is not a court of law
Judgment rejects narcoleptic's case as it would make OIA a legal 'surrogate'. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
United StatesA is for absentee?A professor has resigned from her post at a US university after accusations that she did not teach for two-thirds of an academic year and had awarded As to all her...
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East and West, African sector a middle-class fortress
Study finds class and gender inequality in Ghana's and Tanzania's universities. David Matthews writes
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DIY, says 'edupunk' star. Distortion and sell-out, say critics
Few scholarly cheers for author's 'branded' vision of accessible higher education. Sarah Cunnane writes
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Slow down, you move too fast, MPs tell careering coalition
Simon Baker on an analysis that has plenty to say about the government's direction of travel
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment (NIHR HTA) programme• Award winner: Heather Fortnum• Institution: University of Nottingham Medical School• Value: £140,385Assessment...