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Women are second sex no longer, Hepi argues
Report says men, not women, are now the more disadvantaged in higher education. Melanie Newman reports
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Universities department abolished
Lord Mandelson takes on new combined business and higher education role. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Denham to leave universities post
John Denham is leaving the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills to become Communities Secretary, according to the BBC.Mr Denham, who has been Universities Secretary since the formation...
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Denham blames ‘poor teaching’ for high dropout rates
Hesa performance indicators offer ‘mixed messages’ on retention, minister claims, as critics censure the Government’s access record. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Now is the age of the discontented
The consumer culture has contaminated higher education and student complaints are rising. Some academics, fearing litigation or poor assessment, offer flattery instead of feedback. Frank Furedi...
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They would say that...
Are academics complicit in the proliferation of conspiracy theories, not least through reluctance to tackle 'truthers' head on? Matthew Reisz writes
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Book of the week: The Invisible Hook
Buccaneers' business methods capture Michelle Baddeley's eye
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The Art and Politics of Science
Jon Turney welcomes President Obama's science champion, if not his plodding autobiography
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Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature
If you thought J.K. Rowling was pushing any boundaries with Cedric Diggory's much-discussed demise in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, clearing the way for Harry's budding sexual interest in Cho...
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The Canon: The Origins of the Second World War by A.J.P. Taylor
Few books have so shocked received opinion and been as influential as A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War. It was a classic exercise in the revisionism that is central to the...
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Sexual Solipsism: Philosophical Essays on Pornography and Objectification
Mary Evans discovers how arguments about porn can extend our understanding of equality
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Europe through Arab Eyes, 1578-1727
'You surprise us,' they told him. 'You know languages, read books, travel through the cities and the regions of the world, and yet you are a Muslim!'"These words are taken from a conversation Ahmad...
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The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny
Margot Finn welcomes a timely study of the UK's role in sheltering academic refugees
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Theme Park
The 20th-century leisure phenomenon that is the theme park industry owes its development to many influences, including fairground-ride technology, architectural practice and the history of leisure...