City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic and the First Police Chief of Paris, by Holly Tucker
Sharon Wheeler delights in casting a made-for-TV 17th-century tale laced with sex and the dark arts
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Visions of Sodom: Religion, Homoerotic Desire, and the End of the World in England, c.1550-1850, by H. G. Cocks
Peter J. Smith lauds a powerful study of the relationship between homoerotic desire and anxieties about social, religious, cultural and even apocalyptic collapse
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TEF offers ‘huge opportunity’ to improve teaching, says OfS head
Sir Michael Barber says that classes in English universities could be ‘more inspiring’
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The week in higher education – 22 June 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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TEF 2017: LSE, Southampton and Liverpool get bronze
Many campus-based and post-92 universities claim gold in government-backed league table
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TEF: how much attention will students pay to the results?
The stamp of government approval means TEF ratings will carry significant weight, writes Chris Havergal
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TEF: what makes a ‘gold’ university?
Comparing the TEF with metrics such as the NSS begins to show how university location may have played a role in the final results
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TEF: bronze for BPP, but other alternative providers get gold
University of Buckingham and University of Law grab top ratings in UK’s new teaching assessment
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TEF: results ‘could undermine’ London as global student hub
But many sector figures say that poor performance of capital’s universities is more likely to ‘undermine credibility’ of exercise
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TEF 2017: ‘meaningless’ results ‘devoid of credibility’, says v-c
Sir Christopher Snowden, former Universities UK president, attacks ratings in wake of Southampton’s bronze award
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Patrick Johnston, 1958-2017
Tributes paid after sudden death of Queen’s University Belfast vice-chancellor
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Australian HE reforms need further vetting
Demand-driven funding in higher education but not vocational education will distort both provision and student choice, says Peter Noonan
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A head start with mindfulness
Don't dismiss the meditation technique as a fad: its well documented benefits for those in demanding careers make a strong case for teaching it at university, says Craig Hassed
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Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus, by Laura Kipnis
A polemic against the new McCarthyism in US universities catches Jane O’Grady’s attention