Dearth of black history students explored
Forum probes lack of UK students of African and Caribbean heritage taking history degrees, and its echoes in schoolteacher and lecturer cohorts
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Mergers are all the rage in Europe
The number of university consolidations has shot up in recent years, EUA report finds
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Medellín’s makeover benefits Colombian university
The ebbing of violence and the city’s transformation allow Antioquia to expand its horizons, writes Donna Bowater in Colombia
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Cultural norms may be no-go areas for foreign academics
University staff urged to help visiting scholars adjust to life in the UK
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Medical education is in a critical condition
Universities are losing control of what they teach, warns John Cookson
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A select few: student recruitment in the US
Alan Ryan muses on ironies and idiosyncrasies in higher education
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Anna Maria Barry, Sir David Bell, Peter Paul Catterall, Paul Greatrix, Sir John Holman...
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Eating People is Wrong, And Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future, by Cormac Ó Gráda
Liz Young discovers how failures in governance exacerbated the severity of historical famines
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This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture, by Whitney Phillips
Tara Brabazon on an ethnographical study of the internet users who ‘swarm’ in order to cause maximum pain
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The Globalization of Inequality, by François Bourguignon
A tax rate of 67.5% is part of an economist’s plan to stem excessive inequality, finds Danny Dorling
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The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter, by William Wootten
Richard Larschan on an examination of the conflicting ‘emotional styles’ of two camps of poets of the 1950s and 1960s
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The Variety of Values: Essays on Morality, Meaning, and Love, by Susan Wolf
Jane O’Grady on a collection that stresses the importance of creativity, beauty and self-fulfilment
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After Django: Making Jazz in Postwar France, by Tom Perchard
Les Gofton on a compelling study of a musical subculture
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The First World War, by A. W. Purdue
An overview of the action in Europe also examines present-day attitudes towards the conflict, says Niamh Gallagher
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The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold Us Well-Being, by William Davies
Kathryn Ecclestone on a study examining the underside of the new fixation on inner feelings