Unannounced UK Border Agency inspections
This column has previously considered the UK Border Agency’s (UKBA) new points-based immigration system and its potential impact on educational institutions. Before the introduction of the points-...
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Cut student support and raise fees to preserve quality, says CBI
Task force’s call for ‘uncomfortable’ choices is condemned by the NUS and the UCU. Hannah Fearn reports
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It’s the stupidity, stupid
A course on ‘the most powerful determinant of human destiny’ strikes a nerve with the American media. Jon Marcus reports
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Standards chief criticises MPs over ‘complacency’ claims
But IUSS member replies that attacks on the Students and Universities report are ‘spurious nonsense’. Hannah Fearn reports
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Shock horrors or sound science?
After defending science reporting against Goldacre’s ‘unremitting focus’ on missteps, Drayson promises to look into tales of misrepresentation. Zoë Corbyn reports
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What is Migration History?
Author: Christiane Harzi and Dirk Hoerder with Donna GabacciaEdition: FirstPublisher: Polity PressPages: 181Price: £55.00 and £13.99ISBN: 9780745643366This short book aims to provide a comprehensive...
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The Versailles Settlement: Peacemaking after the First World War, 1919-1923
Author Alan SharpEdition SecondPages 282Publisher Palgrave MacmillanPrice £55.00 and £19.99ISBN 9780333800768 and 800775Alan Sharp’s book has established itself as an indispensable study of the...
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Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007
Author: Patrick Fitzgerald and Brian LambkinEdition: FirstPublisher: Palgrave MacmillanPages: 403Price: £18.99ISBN: 9780230222564The authors try to encapsulate an immense literature on emigration,...
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My eureka moment: A breath of fresh air
Standing on the Old Man of Coniston in Cumbria, Jonathan Bate clearly saw how the Romantics laid the foundations of modern ecocriticism
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The seven deadly sins of the academy
Matthew Reisz and our seven guest contributors lift the lid on the rampant wickedness troubling the sanctity of our hallowed universities
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My eureka moment
A series in which academics describe a personal epiphany
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Objectionable content
Having waded through her complete works, Gerald L. Houseman concludes that there should never, ever be an Ayn Rand revival
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Book of the week: On Art and War and Terror
An interdisciplinary tour of conflict in all its shades and guises grips Robert Eaglestone
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- Citizenship: A Reality Far from IdealEdited by Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development, Cranfield University, Nada Kakabadse, visiting professor...
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The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603
Lucy Wooding admires an assured interweaving of Scottish and English history in the 16th century