What are you reading? 鈥 22 February 2018
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Enlightenment Now: A Manifesto for Science, Reason, Humanism and Progress, by Steven Pinker
Book of the week: Biancamaria Fontana on a masterly defence of the values of modernity against 鈥榩rogressophobes鈥
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 22 February 2018
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The 糖心Vlog v-c pay survey 2018
Our annual pay review details v-cs鈥 remuneration, explores the make-up and workings of the governing bodies that set it, and compares the rewards on offer with those of other sectors
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Review points: fees, part-timers, work and study
With the government launching a review of higher education funding, there has been talk about cutting the tuition fees cap or the interest on student loans. This would be terrible politics and...
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Family-friendly
In your article 鈥淓lites 鈥榦ffer the best maternity provision鈥欌 (News, 8 February), you discuss a paper by Vera Troeger and Mariaelisa Epifanio, which names our university as one that offers no weeks...
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Web of knowledge
In their opinion article 鈥淧rints charming鈥 (8 February) Al Martinich and Tom Palaima make an important claim that is demonstrably untrue. It is that the building of libraries in the US by the...
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Bad behaviours
In the opinion article 鈥淗ell hath no fury鈥︹ (8 February), an anonymous academic describes the pain and anger that they feel after being wrongly suspended by a manager. I can sympathise with that...
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No age ambiguity
Ken Smith (Letters, 15 February) deduces from Matthew Reisz鈥檚 statement that Kori Schake 鈥渨as born in Sonoma, California, 鈥榥ot far from where gold was discovered in 1848鈥欌, that Schake 鈥渨ill turn 170...
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Chalk it up to oversight
Our annual pay review details v-cs鈥 remuneration, explores the make-up and workings of the governing bodies that set it, and compares the rewards on offer with those of other sectors
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