Teaching excellence score ‘key to applicants’ choices’
A survey has suggested that a good rating in England’s TEF would make an applicant consider studying at that university
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Student Lives in Crisis: Deepening Inequality in Times of Austerity, by Lorenza Antonucci
Book of the week: University costs embed inequality and exact a painful toll on individuals, Sorana Vieru says
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Lecturer’s quick reaction brings photographic acclaim
This image of writhing tadpoles, taken by an academic at the University of the West of England, is one of the winning entries in this year’s British Wildlife Photography Awards
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What are you reading? – 15 September 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Deciding What’s True: The Rise of Political Fact-Checking in American Journalism, by Lucas Graves
Having newshounds verify assertions does not in itself untangle complicated issues, Ivor Gaber says
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Revolutionary Yiddishland: A History of Jewish Radicalism, by Alain Brossat and Sylvie Klingberg, translated by David Fernbach
Clive Bloom on the utopians who struggled to realise their dream of a building a secular socialist Jewish state in Europe
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Against Everything: On Dishonest Times, by Mark Greif
Robert Eaglestone on an insightful investigation of how we experience contemporary life
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The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia, by Mary M. Talbot and Brian Talbot
Lisa Mckenzie admires the powerful use of the graphic novel to tell the story of Louise Michel, a 19th-century revolutionary feminist
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Books interview: Cass Sunstein
The legal scholar and nudger-in-chief on Marvel Comics, where to begin with behavioural economics, and Star Wars and President Obama
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The scholar given a year to save Tunisia
Tawfik Jelassi, universities minister after the Jasmine Revolution, on losing his anonymity and being taken hostage by students
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UK’s university schools plan shows ‘more government control’
Birmingham free school key example for Theresa May, but critics warn of ‘incoherence’ in schools system
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Nordic higher education in decline?
The region’s reputation for excellence could be threatened by funding cuts and restructuring
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The week in higher education – 15 September 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 15 September 2016
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