Middle Eastern academies gauge governance for first time
World Bank study weighs strengths and flaws of universities in wake of Arab Spring
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Universities should be able to individualise their lecturer training programmes, says HEA head
Higher Education Academy chief executive Stephanie Marshall explains her plans for institutions to have autonomy over staff CPD
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Breadth v depth
I am about to begin my 20th year of teaching in the UK: 12 years at Lancaster University and now in my eighth year at the University of Aberdeen
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Huge variation in US academics’ pay
Alan Ryan reflects on the lack of uniformity in salaries for leaders of American higher education institutions
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Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, America’s First Female Rocket Scientist, by George D. Morgan
Margaret Weitekamp on a woman who helped get the US space programme off the ground
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Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology and Geology of the Underworld, by Salomon Kroonenberg
Alison Stokes enjoys a tour of the physical and metaphorical lands of fire and brimstone
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Matthew Feldman, Dennis Hayes, Karen McAulay, June Purvis and Sara Read...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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July 1914: Countdown to War, by Sean McMeekin
A startling exercise in revisionism leads A. W. Purdue to ponder which nation was responsible for launching the great conflict
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Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror, by Nechama Tec
Rachel L. Einwohner on those who stood against the Holocaust
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Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing, by Didier Fassin
Vicky Conway on the corrosive effect of unchecked power
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Christianity and the University Experience: Understanding Student Faith, by Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Sonya Sharma and Rob Warner
Religious belief is alive and well on campus, observes Gerald Pillay
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Spanish Golden Age Theatre Season, Theatre Royal, Bath
Jonathan Thacker hopes that three comedia nueva plays - combining comedy and tragedy - will herald a revival of a lesser-known art form
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Fees fault line may reopen at Lib Dem conference
Opposition grows over motion to ‘retain current system of finance’
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MPs question RCUK’s gold standard
Committee points to ‘gaps in qualitative and quantitative evidence’ for Finch report recommendations
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Obama’s rankings won’t solve crisis in US academy
More government cash is the only way to cut student costs, argue Rudy Fichtenbaum and Hank Reichman