The parent trap
Rachel Bowlby on a modern retelling of Henry James鈥 tale of childhood curiosity and parental shortcomings
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Laurie Taylor
鈥榋ero here鈥 contract scandal鈥淚 couldn鈥檛 even tell you the way to Poppleton. Is it in the North somewhere?鈥漈hat was the startling admission made by one of our university鈥檚 latest research appointments...
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Eating Anxiety: The Perils of Food Politics, by Chad Lavin
Erika Cudworth discusses neoliberalism鈥檚 鈥榙igestive turn鈥
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Crash and Beyond: Causes and Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis, by Andrew Farlow
Victoria Bateman on the parallels and differences between 1929 and 2008
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No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, by Ruth R. Wisse
A Harvard scholar on what makes Jewish wisecracks distinctly Jewish
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Mothers in Academia, edited by Mari Casta帽eda and Kirsten Isgro
Female scholars talk candidly about their experiences of combining an academic career with child-rearing
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Sharpen your blue pencil
Sandra Leaton Gray hails a text that all academics (and their students) should read
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Elements of mystery
The international hunt for chemistry鈥檚 鈥榤issing links鈥 makes for an engrossing tale, finds Alan Rocke
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THE Best University Workplace Survey: staff unheard?
Early results show 40% of respondents feel ignored
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Save your work 鈥 give software engineers a career track
Academy risks research future by failing to give聽credit where it鈥檚 due
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The week in higher education - 15 August 2013
Since taking over last year at the Office for Fair Access, Les聽Ebdon鈥檚 tactic for avoiding publicity has been to make all his pronouncements as boring as possible. But that does not keep people off...
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Cleared dean resigns after Cardiff restructure
Paul Morgan, who was cleared of research misconduct earlier this year, has resigned as the dean and head of Cardiff University鈥檚 School of Medicine, citing an inability to work under the university鈥檚...
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Unintended results
As A-level results day dawns, Michael Gove鈥檚 plans for the exam鈥檚 fundamental reform draw ever closer to fruition. But will they endanger the traditional values he seeks to promote? Jack Grove...
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Vulvanomics
Shahidha Bari welcomes a thoughtful look at ordinary anatomy and extraordinary anxiety