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Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome: Ancient Ideas for Modern Times, by Christopher Pelling and Maria Wyke
Despite a quibble over guides, a personal tour of classical literature delights Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
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Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us, by John Hills
Most people receive from the welfare state what they pay in taxes, argues Danny Dorling
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Report highlights 10 trends set to shake up education
Massive open social learning and dynamic assessment on the Open University’s list
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World in brief - 13 November 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesFree tanning beds available at colleges despite health riskAlmost half of the top ranked universities in the US (48 per cent) have tanning beds on or near campus, according...
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Leonore Davidoff, 1932-2014
A historian who pioneered new approaches to gender, women’s and social history has died
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Q&A with Claude Littner
We speak to the Apprentice star about the importance of MBAs, running a football club and working with Lord Sugar
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News in brief - 13 November 2014
Student loansNothing to see here: governmentThe government has ruled out an “urgent” review of the sustainability of the student loans system despite being advised to do so by a group of MPs. In a...
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Eats shoots and leaves
Out of interest, why do we need to know where John Gill took Sir Steve Smith to lunch in London (“If you want thanks and love, get a dog”, Interview, 6 November)? And why do we need to know what was...
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A little something
Although female academics who spoke at the Australasian Evolution Society conference spoke for less time than their male counterparts, because more of them spoke, the average female academic attendee...
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Towards interoperability
Research Councils UK welcomes the Association of Research Managers and Administrators’ help in developing better interoperability in relation to collecting information on the outcomes of research...
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Another dimension
The article on the decline in mature students (“Across the ages”, Features, 6 November) resonates with me.I left school at 16 and had a series of uninspiring office jobs. I went to night school to...
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Real pension consequences
Perhaps, rather than being so keen to join in radically diminishing staff pensions, Universities UK might like to think more broadly and more long term about the unanticipated consequences of the...
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100% pay penalty fails to see staff in round
I am writing to complain about how the University of Surrey is handling the University and College Union marking boycott. I am a final-year undergraduate and feel ashamed of the university that I...
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