Gloucestershire turns to BIS for new v-c
The University of Gloucestershire has appointed a senior official at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as its new vice-chancellor.
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Inside Higher Ed: College suspends courses by gay priest
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Painful legacy: US academy confronts slave-holding past
On the northern edge of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a statue of a Confederate soldier stands sentry, rifle at the ready. Given to the university in 1913 by the...
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Competition will be Willetts’ fee fighter
To keep prices down, loans will be extended to private-sector students and caps on places will be loosened, but minister wants more time to prepare White Paper
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Hefce likely to lessen the impact
Research “impact” will count for less than the proposed 25 per cent in the research excellence framework, funding chiefs are expected to confirm next week.
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The Reformation of the Landscape: Religion, Identity, and Memory in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
Lucy Wooding praises a compelling study of the evolving significance of the land's sacred features
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Nuns Behaving Badly: Tales of Music, Magic, Art and Arson in the Convents of Italy
Mary Laven enjoys an original account of alleged cloistered crime and use of the 'diabolical arts'
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Much Ado About (Practically) Nothing: A History of the Noble Gases
The noble gases are the silent onlookers of the chemical world. Atoms of helium, neon, argon, krypton and radon have electrons, in the negatively charged cloud smeared around their nuclei, in just...
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The Politics of Literature
Jacques Rancière is increasingly highly thought of by anglophone literary critics and theorists. He has a reputation as a radical thinker, both intellectually and politically: he was a collaborator...
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The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini
James Delbourgo admires an enlightened woman of science who became a fixture of the Grand Tour
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Do Llamas Fall in Love? 33 Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles
Do Llamas Fall in Love? has almost nothing to do with llamas, but plenty to do with love, especially that love of wisdom that is philosophy. This smart and funny jaunt through philosophy's core...
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The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
Back in the mid-19th century, the Prussian nationalist historian Heinrich von Treitschke asserted that "it is men who make history". A century later, Fernand Braudel, the Annales School historian,...
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Blogconfidential: Any bloody lie will do
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Any bloody lie will do
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Appointments
University of HullAlison YarringtonAlison Yarrington has been appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Hull. Professor Yarrington, an expert in sculpture, took a...
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Saturday, bloody Saturday: now it's all right for grafting
'Share' project diarists divulge how they are losing their weekends to work. Rebecca Attwood reports