Thorny fact-checking
It is surprising that Marianne Elliott thinks that criticism of the late Peter Hart鈥檚 research is 鈥渧ilification鈥 (鈥淣o word for what we鈥檙e doing鈥, Books, 3 October). 糖心Vlog has twice...
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Spirits of the market
Your piece on essay mills is a little harsh聽(鈥淲e can write it for you wholesale鈥, 10聽October): after all, they simply satisfy a聽demand in an education market. In the same聽way, ghostwriters, often...
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Paul Klee: Making Visible
Alex Danchev delights in Tate Modern鈥檚 finely chosen feast of delicacies from the table of Paul Klee
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Graham Farmelo, Emma Griffin, Andrew Hadfield, Tim Hall and Jan Marsh...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered, by Cynthia Enloe
Gwendolyn Beetham on what we can learn from observations of society鈥檚 dismissal of women
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Delete: A Design History of Computer Vapourware, by Paul Atkinson
John Gilbey is reunited with fondly remembered computer hardware that never achieved market success
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Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-18, by Emily Mayhew
A.鈥塛. Purdue is moved by the stories of the medical personnel who saved lives at the Western Front
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Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England, by Sara Read
Helen Fulton looks at social attitudes to women鈥檚 monthly cycle in the 16th to 18th centuries
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Power, Powerlessness and Addiction, by Jim Orford
Philip Murphy on an analysis of addictions, to both legal and illegal substances, with respect to the role of power
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Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation, by Estelle B. Freedman
Joanna Bourke on a meticulous analysis of the responses of civil rights movements to sexual violence against women and girls
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Perceptions of the Research Excellence Framework
Source: AlamyClick image to enlargeThe extent of academic scepticism about the research excellence framework鈥檚 value has been revealed in a survey, published by the University and College聽Union...
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UK engineering is firing on all cylinders
Your correspondent Mark Lee makes a number of unfounded assertions about the engineering profession, the demand for engineers, the state of manufacturing and the Royal Academy of Engineering (Letters...
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Off Piste - Beetlemania
Nicolas Gompel explains how his pet obsession has inspired his investigations into biological diversity
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Q&A with Sir Christopher Snowden
We speak to the president of Universities UK. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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The week in higher education - 17 October 2013
A creepy clown whose eerie appearances have spooked a town has been unmasked as a University of Northampton student, the Sunday People revealed on 13聽October. Dressed as the homicidal clown Pennywise...