An estate of mind: learning to build the perfect campus
Defining institutional mission is the cornerstone of a successful development, Matthew Reisz hears
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Tribunal finds in favour of Gloucestershire whistleblower
The University of Gloucestershire has lost a tribunal case brought by a manager who claimed she was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the state of the institution’s finances.
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‘Cultivate minds that can integrate, avoid too much specialisation’
The president of the University of Chicago has defended the notion of a wide-ranging university education that cultivates the “habit of mind to integrate ideas”, in the face of employers’ demands for...
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UCU warns of top position in a ranking to avoid
England could become the most expensive country in the world in which to study at a public university in light of Lord Browne of Madingley’s review of fees and funding, the main lecturers’ union has...
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Bonfire of the inanities
Times are hard and cuts have to be made, so let's start by putting an end to verbosity and all those mind-bogglingly long assignments, research papers and reports, writes Peter Lennox, succinctly
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Sisters' winning formula
Women produce fewer papers than men over a lifetime and are still scarce in senior positions, especially in science. Dispelling myths of innate difference between the sexes, Amanda Goodall offers...
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Pensions are safe if we don't stop working
Proposals to remove the retirement age should be good news for the academic superannuation pot, but Darrel Ince warns that there are downsides as well
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Book of the Week: Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
A cutting critique of the sexism of neuroscience - the phrenology du jour - made Hilary Rose chuckle in agreement
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The End of Discovery: Are We Approaching the Boundaries of the Knowable?
Simon Mitton seeks a more philosophical view of the state of knowledge in theoretical physics
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Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity
Few people talk straight when it comes to sex - even otherwise very straight people tend to become coy, facetious, sanctimonious or simply silent. This book examines the role played by Greece and...
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The Canon: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
"Problem-posing education is revolutionary futurity. Hence it is prophetic (and, as such, hopeful)." So wrote Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968), one of the 20th...
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To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
A detailed and informed social critique of Christianity in the US today fascinates Keith Ward
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Attlee: A Life in Politics
A biographer of Clement Attlee faces the problem that his subject may, as Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds concedes, have had "no significant personality at all". Most contemporaries seem to have agreed that...
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The Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave
The back cover of Mark Lawrence Schrad's book describes it as a tour de force. Drawing on research in three different languages (Russian, Swedish and English), with 65 pages of footnotes, it merits...
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The People's University: A History of the California State University
The UK could learn lessons from a fascinating history of California's universities, finds Alan Ryan