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Cambridge ‘haemorrhaging millions of pounds a month’ on £1 billion building project
Governing body members claim projected overspend could be up to £87 million
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David Cesarani, 1956-2015
A leading historian of modern European history has died
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Anthony Seldon sets out ideals and goals for University of Buckingham
Liberal thinking, teaching quality and pastoral care are his priorities for private university
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University of Bristol gets its graduates ‘career ready’
New vice-chancellor Hugh Brady hopes innovation programmes will spur graduates to become social and business entrepreneurs
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How the redbrick universities created British higher education
Scholar contends that civic universities were a ‘Renaissance nobody notices’
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Interview with Kevin Maguire
We talk Whitehall, tuition fees and Sunderland FC with the veteran Daily Mirror journalist
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Everything to Nothing: The Poetry of the Great War, Revolution and the Transformation of Europe, by Geert Buelens
Deborah Longworth salutes the range and reach in Everything to Nothing
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Hospitality and Islam: Welcoming in God’s Name, by Mona Siddiqui
This study of Muslim relationships between hosts, guests and religion is timely, says Tehseen Thaver
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Gothic for the Steam Age: An Illustrated Biography of George Gilbert Scott, by Gavin Stamp
James Stevens Curl on an architect who designed some of the great Victorian buildings but was unjustly maligned
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What are you reading? – 12 November 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The End of the Cold War: 1985-1991, by Robert Service
Vladimir Tismaneanu praises a study of the key players in East-West relations in the late 1980sÂ
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The Book of Human Emotions: An Encyclopaedia of Feeling from Anger to Wanderlust, by Tiffany Watt Smith
Interpretation of what we are feeling should never be reduced to mere physiology, says Jane O’Grady
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What is the future of the academic book?
Experts debate how scholarly publishing is going to have to change
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New and noteworthy – 12 November 2015
From the University of Chicago to ancient Rome via the ‘palaeo diet’ and China’s Three Gorges Dam: new academic books worth adding to your reading list