Would John Williams’ Stoner survive today?
A tale of quiet devotion to scholarship seems all the more poignant given the relentless nature of today’s academy, says Rachel Carey
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REF is a misery for early career researchers, survey finds
Young academics cite bullying, pressure to publish and casualisation as downsides of assessment exercise
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Examiners give hugely different marks
Study finds inconsistencies in grading for borderline 2:1 and 2:2 essays
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University financial health check 2015
Which institutions are building the reserves to cushion potential shocks from uncapped student recruitment and rocketing research costs?
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Help your research to hit the headlines
Journalists who set the news agenda have short attention spans. By helping them, researchers can help to get coverage for their work
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Unite to fight for common goals, NUS president-elect tells activists
Megan Dunn sets out priorities as she defends the right to occupy
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Press rewind on political thinkers to fast-forward, seminar hears
Academics at a British Academy event discuss the purpose of the history of political thought
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Campus close-up: New College of the Humanities
The marks of private provider’s first cohort of graduates make Anthony Grayling feel more vindicated than ever
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Vote? Why bother?
In this general election, visiting the polling station seems more pointless than ever, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, by Caryl Churchill
A staging of the 1647 Putney Debates poses inconvenient questions about political means and ends, says Liz Schafer
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Seneca: A Life, by Emily Wilson
A major figure’s rise and fall reveals a gap between discourse and reality, Barbara Graziosi finds
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After the Ancestors: An Anthropologist’s Story, by Andrew Beatty
The tales of a society on the margins and a researcher’s struggle to integrate into that society make for a readable account about real people, says Joy Hendry
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The Rise of Women’s Transnational Activism: Identity and Sisterhood between the World Wars, by Marie Sandell
This valuable work sheds light on the building of an ‘international sisterhood’ to further the struggle for women’s rights, says June Purvis
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Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information, by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
Robyn Arianrhod welcomes an unsentimental study of the first woman to win a Nobel prize
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The Prime of Life: A History of Modern Adulthood, by Steven Mintz
E. Stina Lyon on a complex account of the trajectory of adult life in the modern world