Holyrood debates fees in anticipation of post-Browne changes in England
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Academic threatens to sue UCU over proposed Israeli college boycott
Politics professor disputes union move on grounds of discrimination and equality. John Gill reports
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Bonfire of the quangos
Vince Cable announces Con-Lib commitment to wielding the axe. Simon Baker reports
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Retiring Lives
All 17 contributors to Retiring Lives are academics, or women and men with considerable experience in schools, further and higher education, but this is not an academic study on education. It could...
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Pevsner: The Early Life
Germany's loss was England's gain, says James Stevens Curl of the start of an acclaimed career
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The Female Gothic: New Directions
An uncanny sense of critical recuperation filled my thoughts as I scanned the contents page and digested the introduction of this edited volume. Here, once again, Ellen Moers' concept of the "female...
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The Canon: Moses and Monotheism. By Sigmund Freud
While Freud may have come to conclusions with which it is not always easy to concur, it is surely absurd to dismiss his work in its entirety. Many do, however, and despite approbation from figures as...
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Is the Rectum a Grave? And Other Essays
Robert Kulpa re-evaluates an interdisciplinary thinker who probes the limits of anthropocentrism
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Unequal Britain: Equalities in Britain since 1945
This book is the product of a group of authors affiliated to the Institute of Historical Research and examines the question of inequality from the viewpoint of groups who are often seen as...
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I do I undo I redo: The Textual Genesis of Modernist Selves
Finn Fordham may be the kind of critic whose attentions writers dread. He is a meticulous enquirer into the often murky truth about how poems and novels come into being; the regrettably mundane...
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Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China
Joseph Dauben is impressed with the scholarship in a study of 'shape-shifting' missionaries
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The Nature and Future of Philosophy
It would be a fine thing to know the nature and the future of philosophy, and Sir Michael Dummett, one of the few British philosophers to regularly appear in encyclopaedias of the discipline of...
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The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World
Sir Howard Newby appreciates a wake-up call for the US academy that will ring alarm bells here, too
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Book of the week: Requiem for a Species
Why are most people 'everyday denialists'? Steven Yearley gets a sobering lesson
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ARTS AND DESIGN- What is Architectural History?By Andrew Leach, senior lecturer in architecture, Griffith University. Wiley, £50.00 and £14.99. ISBN 9780745644561 and 4578This book considers the...