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United StatesState of the union: deniedA US governor has signed a bill prohibiting postgraduate students from forming unions at public universities in his state. Rick Snyder, the governor of Michigan...
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A sister act of positive discrimination to benefit all
Afghan politician strives to promote equal opportunity in divided land. Lianne Gutcher writes
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US study highlights need for wider leadership pool
Meet your average American college president: he's a 61-year-old married white man who has been in his current role for seven years and boasts a doctorate in education.This profile, from the American...
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An inclusive mission
As a scholar at Cambridge, Rowan Williams will continue pursuing a communal search for truth, says Benjamin Myers
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Hate has no place here
The sector must consider the law, confront its own prejudices, update its codes and banish the extremists from campus, says Ruth Deech
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The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Mercedes Camino commends the untangling of atrocities committed during the Franco era
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17 Equations that Changed the World
Charles Seife is eased through mathematical relationships that help to make sense of reality
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The French Way: How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power
In this dense, if repetitious, study of the modernisation of France, Richard Kuisel tells of a second French resistance. Not to German occupation, but to a foe pervading all of French life, namely...
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Emanuel Swedenborg, Secret Agent on Earth and in Heaven: Jacobites, Jews, and Freemasons in Early Modern Sweden
It is a disturbing truth, as Jonathan Clark has pointed out in Revolution and Rebellion: State and Society in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1986), that academics promoting a...
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Insecure in the knowledge
As old-style lifelong tenure fades out in the US, institutions are having to invent new systems by which they can define and judge scholarship, David Mould discovers
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Creative vs accounting
Allowing universities to be run by bean counters and bureaucrats is detrimental to academics' ingenuity and productivity, argues Amanda Goodall
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Russell Group: Suits you, Sir
Our vice-chancellor has announced that he "perfectly understands" the reasoning that has led the universities of Exeter, Durham, York and Queen Mary, University of London to abandon their current...
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Dismantle the tower of 'edu-babble'
I am not at all surprised by the poor notices for the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, which to me highlight the fact that the 糖心Vlog Academy is probably unfit for purpose...
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Core expression
On 23 January, a meeting of the Atheism, Secularism and Humanism Society at Queen Mary, University of London called to discuss "Sharia law and human rights" was disrupted before the invited speaker,...
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Prejudicial enquiries
You say that the Academic Reputation Survey is based on the "considered, expert judgement of senior, published academics" ("Informed opinion at the heart of the matter", 糖心Vlog World...