Politics of Fear, Practices of Hope
Alex Danchev is underwhelmed by some well-meaning but overpriced utopian futurology
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Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars: Marvell and the Cause of Wit
Andrew Marvell's poetry has long been attended by critical controversy or quizzical scepticism, due in part to his characteristic ambivalence and additionally by debate about his biography and...
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Warp and Weft: Chinese Language and Culture
With the rise of China as a global power triggering increasing demand for people with knowledge of Chinese language and culture, Keekok Lee's new book is undoubtedly a timely and more than welcome...
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Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia
Laleh Khalili on an academic agony aunt who advises on everything from sex to seminar etiquette
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Obelisk: A History
James Stevens Curl on an exploration of obelisks, and what these far-from-static monuments signify
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Men in Caring Occupations: Doing Gender Differently
Men in Caring Occupations goes some way to overturn Mairtin Mac an Ghaill's (1994) suggestion that the absence of focus on men and masculinities in mainstream academic research on occupations signals...
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The Music of Joni Mitchell
In a career that spans almost half a century, Canadian singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell has released a body of work that has seen her embrace a variety of creative areas that far outreach her...
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? = forthcoming reviewART AND DESIGN- Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black PortraitureBy Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett professor of art and art history, Duke University. University of Chicago...
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Piercemuller in Parliament
"Students aren't what they used to be." That was the dramatic assertion made by our own Doctor Piercemuller when he recently addressed the House of Commons Innovation, Universities, Science and...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 1
The Higher Education Funding Council for England ignored the results of the research assessment exercise when allocating funding for 2009-10 in English universities. This is shown by the correlation...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 2
Those of us at the University of Reading are naturally wondering just how we have arrived at this funding situation. We cannot escape the fact that we are proportionally the hardest hit "research-...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 3
Your otherwise informative coverage of the grant allocations was marred by the exclusion of further education colleges from the analysis.Your table of gainers and losers, for example, should have...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 4
In your article on the financial outcome of the RAE, you ascribe the Institute of Cancer Research's 10 per cent decrease in research funding to "disappointing RAE results" ("Reversal of fortunes", 5...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 5
Your description of the relationship between institutional size and performance in the article on RAE funding was overly simplistic in its interpretation of the analyses. A statistical association...
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Oxford's happy history
We would like to thank Felipe Fernandez-Armesto for giving a fascinating talk to the Oxford University History Society. However, having hosted a number of successful speaker events this term, we were...