Pension action plans threaten NUS-UCU alliance
The National Union of Students has warned lecturers that student support for industrial action over pensions could be withdrawn.
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Monographs finally join citations database
The use of bibliometric data to assess humanities scholars could become more widespread with the launch of a citation index of academic books.
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Stock plagiarism penalties don't always fit the crime
Scholars identify weaknesses in a proposed sector-wide 'reference tariff'. Jack Grove reports
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Save the world - but nick a bit of it for yourself
If you have ever felt the urge to mug an old lady after buying a package of eco-friendly soap powder, you may not be alone.According to social science publisher Sage's most downloaded article of 2009...
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Wales says it is the victim of a conspiracy
BBC and v-cs have run a 'coordinated series of attacks', university claims. David Matthews writes
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It's better to travel - but Erasmus credits can get lost in translation
'Lack of trust' and course mismatches mean study abroad may go unrecognised. Jack Grove reports
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Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
For the artist formerly known as Boz, success was no foregone conclusion, writes Valerie Sanders
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Rereading Women: Thirty Years of Exploring Our Literary Traditions
Mary Evans applauds a collaboration that attuned our ear to female voices in fiction
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The Queer Art of Failure
A writer who begins a book by citing the children's TV character SpongeBob SquarePants, who makes the amnesiac fish Dory from Finding Nemo a central figure, and who describes the animated film...
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Perilous Glory: The Rise of Western Military Power
What is it about pre-modern military historians that tempts them to sermonise so readily about the contemporary world? Ancient Greek historians Victor Davis Hanson and Donald Kagan have both become...
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The Terror of History: On the Uncertainties of Life in Western Civilization
A morsel of Montaigne manque in the midst of horror proves not to be to Alex Danchev's taste
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Before Porn was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse
Growing up in Cold War West Germany, teenagers would share knowing grins whenever the name Beate Uhse was mentioned: it stood for all things vaguely adult and naughty. Little did we know about the...
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Loving Animals: Toward a New Animal Advocacy
Kathy Rudy has written Loving Animals with the intent of establishing fresh perspectives on animal ethics. In pursuit of this goal, she investigates common dilemmas concerning the treatment of non-...
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Claude: The Enchanted Landscape
Sheila McTighe on a fresh look at Claude's working process, at his embodiment of place and at his idealisation of the pastoral
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Diary
LondonHoneypotIt is 1982. Susanne is a beautiful Swedish woman in her mid-thirties. So what impels her to leave behind her husband and child, embark on a wild journey of self-discovery and volunteer...