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Shades of grey among the eBay ‘Lowrys’
Richard Howells’ online hunt for ‘masterpieces’ may be a playful act of irony, but it also questions the nature of artistic authenticity
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‘We’re only here for the REF’
“I find your imputation extremely offensive.” That was how Brian Bryan, our Deputy Head of REF Strategy, responded to the suggestion from Poppletonian reporter Keith Ponting (30) that our university’...
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Musings on Mortality: From Tolstoy to Primo Levi, by Victor Brombert
Robin Feuer Miller on an analysis of writers’ perceptions of death
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Course corrections for a revolutionary age
An ‘unconference’ inspires Kevin Fong to rethink his lecture material
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My new academic year: day one
Emma Rees offers a time-sensitive account of the start of term
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3 October 2013
World University Rankings 2013-2014
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Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why it Matters, by Judith A. Levine
Angelia R. Wilson on welfare, women and unresolved political tension
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The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London, by Hannah Greig
Clare Brant on the truly dedicated followers of 18th-century fashion
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US for-profits must up their game to regain lost ground
High tuition, bad press and recovering economy cited in falling student numbers
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Europe faces longer wait for single market in research
Academics still hidebound by national rules, Commission finds
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Australia’s Coalition to review demand-driven system
New government also aims to cut red tape
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News in brief - 3 October 2013
United StatesIll-fated ratingA credit ratings agency has downgraded a US university, citing loss of revenue from its hospital arm and cuts in federal funding among the reasons. Moody’s Investors...
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Academy and business aim to reforge language supply chain
Born Global research looks to bridge gap between supply and demand
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Will and representation
It was lovely to see an article on Just William (“Embrace a scruffy boy”, Culture, 19 September), but it behoves editors always to be wary of pieces that arrive with the tag, “no one has written...