Lost children of the audit revolution
Once upon a time, the academy saw its role as subjecting prevailing ideologies to a critical eye. But after decades of political pressure, it has surrendered its independence and lost its soul,...
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University Alliance’s latest member
Glasgow Caledonian exits Million+ to join other ‘business-focused universities’ with matching values. Melanie Newman reports
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Scholar pens Green Party manifesto
Keele lecturer’s work calls for end to tuition fees and a ban on animal experiments. Melanie Newman reports
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Fewer dropouts, more state students
Hesa figures show modest changes in vital indices. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Singh triumphant
Science writer counts the costs as British Chiropractic Association abandons libel claim. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Book of the week: March of the Microbes
Jon Turney on a microbiologist's ambitious project to captivate us with minuscule wonders
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About Faces: Physiognomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Alan Collins on a Victorian pseudo-science that addressed fears of the anonymous urban 'other'
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A World by Itself: A History of the British Isles
In his 1942 essay "The Rediscovery of Europe", George Orwell gave a tongue-in-cheek assessment of historical periodisation in schoolboy history: "Think of history as a sort of long scroll with thick...
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The Canon: Ways of Seeing. By John Berger
In the early 1970s, John Berger almost single-handedly changed the face of art history with this work and the four-part BBC TV series that accompanied it. The book continues to be influential, and...
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Shoestring theories
Is intelligent life on our pale blue dot a one-off freak of nature, or is the cosmos teeming with it? Theoretical physicist Paul Davies' cosmic search aims to find out - and it won't cost the earth....
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Nine Wartime Lives: Mass-Observation and the Making of the Modern Self
Hester Vaizey is fascinated by the revelations of diaries from a wartime Mass-Observation project
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Animalkind: What We Owe to Animals
Philosopher Jean Kazez takes as this book's starting point the difficult, highly relevant, and often avoided question: "How should we treat animals?" She approaches the question from different angles...
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Overlooking the Visual: Demystifying the Art of Design
Landscape architect and educator Kathryn Moore identifies a malaise in thinking about the design process, which she attributes to the traditional rationalist world view that sees designing as part of...
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BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDY- Management Theory in ActionBy Eric H. Kessler, senior professor of management, Pace University. Palgrave Macmillan, £58.50. ISBN 9780230607583Drawing on the accounts of...
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Wholesale opulence?
An academic conference is to analyse the concept of luxury. In Pursuit of Luxury: Commercial and Academic Perspectives on Luxury will cover issues ranging from the understanding of the term to...