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Disquiet over plans for Portsmouth’s School of Art
A Turner Prize-winning artist has criticised a decision by a university art school to concentrate more on digital-based courses in a restructure that threatens around a dozen jobs.
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AHRC appoints new director of research
A professor of English studies at the University of Strathclyde has been named as the new director of research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Universities wary of European threat to autonomy, Lords inquiry hears
Universities in the UK should be wary of any attempts by the European Commission to take greater control of higher education policy as it could present a threat to institutional autonomy, a vice-...
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Tribes & tribulations
Every discipline has quirks invisible to its insiders. Intrepid scholars who venture into a related field will discover a host of idiosyncrasies that shine new light on the oddities of one's own...
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The unseen academy
As officialdom's demands for meaningless Transparency and Information multiply, Thomas Docherty asks: has clandestine scholarship become the only way to carry out real research and teaching?
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The Body Politic: The Battle over Science in America
This punchy work helps to address the denial of scientific knowledge in the US, says James Wilsdon
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The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George
An exposition of fraternal ties sheds new light on the life of the 'Cockney Poet', finds Christoph Bode
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Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR
Generalisations about the other part of the country were always rife both in West Germany and in the East. Popular Western assumptions included the observation that communist political oppression...
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American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
In American Oracle, David Blight uses the sesquicentenary of the American Civil War and the juxtaposition of that war's centenary with contemporaneous civil rights struggles in a bid to reopen the...
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The Crimes of Elagabalus: The Life and Legacy of Rome's Decadent Boy Emperor
Judith Weingarten on whether a teenage ruler's antics were as depraved as we've been told
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Beauty Pays: Why Attractive People Are More Successful
Is there a premium for being beautiful? And if there is, why is that so? In times of global economic crises, one may perhaps wonder whether economists should investigate these questions. This book...
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The Liberty of Servants: Berlusconi's Italy
Maurizio Viroli is a distinguished Italian liberal political philosopher and historian of thought who, these days, lives in a sort of exile, sharing appointments between Princeton University and the...
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BBSRC director quits her post
Janet Allen says decision unconnected to probe into her former PhD student. Paul Jump reports
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Topsy-turvy ranking in social science teaching
Teaching in universities that are usually ranked towards the bottom of higher education league tables is more consistently of a high standard than instruction at institutions towards the top of the...