A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World, by Erika Rappaport
A. W. Purdue on a study that views the drink as the centrepiece of a new international economy
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Victorian Pain, by Rachel Ablow
The discomforts felt and described by five writers form the focus of this literary study, writes Lennard Davis
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The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart, by Mitchell Cohen
An ambitious study that sets musical history within the political context of the birth of the modern state never manages to sing, says Mark Berry
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Fifty-fold growth in English-taught bachelor’s courses in Europe
Study reveals that there are now 2,900 English-medium undergraduate programmes in continental Europe
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The week in higher education – 14 September 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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V-c pay: Are vice-chancellors worth their salaries?
Last week, the UK’s universities minister threatened to fine institutions that pay their v-cs more than the prime minister without a strong justification. We present three perspectives on the debate
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Gendering Modernism: A Historical Reappraisal of the Canon, by Maria Bucur
Tracey Warr on a broad survey that outlines women’s exclusion from an artistic movement
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We’re in this fight
The article “The middle-class academic elite are totally out of touch” (Opinion, 7 September) confuses cause and effect, appearing to blame “academia” for all society’s ills. Have academics in the...
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Career advice: how to prepare students for university teaching
Pragya Agarwal explains how lecturers can support first-year students as they make the transition to the self-directed learning required at university
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‘Nuclear option’ will have a big fallout in Australian universities
The ending of Murdoch University’s agreement with its staff over employment conditions could herald a rougher ride for university staff, says Gavin Moodie
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The moral panic over student cheating must end
We need to call off the witch-hunt and trust in the capacity of our students to learn, says Bruce Macfarlane