Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet, by Philip Freeman
Following textual ‘clues’ sheds little new light on an ancient literary figure, says Barbara Graziosi
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Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, by Michel Chion
David Revill on a provocative and insightful work that explores our creative and ambient sonic environment and how we perceive it
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Before and After: Reminiscences on a Working Life, by Edith Morley
Memoir of scholar who fought for recognition will strike a chord with many women, says June Purvis
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond
Danny Dorling on the US failure to provide affordable housing for its citizens
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Books interview: Sunil Khilnani
Sunil Khilnani, author of Incarnations: India in 50 Lives, on his wife Katherine Boo's worldwide success, the wisdom of C.L.R. James and R. G. Collingwood, and the 'deliciously bad ends' of...
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Access all areas: the push to show outreach efforts pay off
Institutions have little evidence that their widening participation activities deliver, but they are working to change that, finds Chris Havergal
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Lean in? Leaning out could improve early career academics’ lot
Shahidha Bari on Sheryl Sandberg, sex discrimination and university exploitation
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Laurie Taylor – 3 March 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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India must forge its own identity
Philip Altbach’s analysis of the Indian higher education scene and the country’s ambitious goals falls short of a critical contextual appreciation of what might really benefit the country’s people (“...
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Mobility aid
Access to higher education should be afforded to anyone who wishes to pursue it. It is disheartening to see the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency showing a decline in the...
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Poor comparisons
Perhaps the principal problem with the discussion about whether the teaching excellence framework should learn lessons from the use of ratings in the school and healthcare sectors is that the initial...