News in brief - 18 September 2014
Disabled Students’ AllowanceClark delays cuts until 2016The government has postponed controversial cuts to the Disabled Students’ Allowance until 2016-17. Greg Clark, the universities, science and...
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Does boot camp have a place on campus?
Hong Bing considers whether compulsory military training in Chinese universities has a place in the modern world
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World in brief - 18 September 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesHumanities units hang on despite dip in student numbersThe number of humanities departments at US universities has remained largely unchanged since 2007-08 despite fears...
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Grant winners - 18 September 2014
Royal SocietyWolfson Research Merit AwardsAwards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancementAward winner: Graham CormodeInstitution: University of WarwickSmall summaries for big...
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The English Civil War: A Military History, by Peter Gaunt
A comprehensive but compact new history of the war is reviewed by R. C. Richardson
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Reshaping the University: The Rise of the Regulated Market in Higher Education, by David Palfreyman and Ted Tapper
Joanna Williams reviews the latest commentary on the commercialisation of higher education
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The Inner Enemies of Democracy, by Tzvetan Todorov
Vladimir Tismaneanu on a book that argues against the self-righteousness of neoliberalism
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Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind, by Clive Gamble, John Gowlett and Robin Dunbar
Simon Underdown extols a study that looks beyond stones and bones to understand how the past shaped the brain
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Milton and the People, by Paul Hammond
Willy Maley praises a beautifully written account of the poet’s disaffection with the masses
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Social Justice through Citizenship? The Politics of Muslim Integration in Germany and Great Britain, by Aleksandra Lewicki
Sarah Hackett on a timely study that merits a place at the heart of current policy debates
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Shock call by Poppleton don
In an exclusive interview with our reporter, Keith Ponting (30), Professor Gordon Lapping of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies has spoken frankly about the need for academics to “stand up...
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Languages pushed to brink
It was interesting to read that modern foreign languages are being marginalised in some of our post-92 universities in the wake of the fees hike (“Seeking commitment”, Opinion, 4 September). I fear...
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IP ‘surrendered’ at outset
Requiring students to grant rights over their intellectual property to a university has become usual since the 1990s when one or two higher education institutions began it, the University of Leeds...
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Solving the literacy puzzle
It is strange that the article “The puzzle of UK graduates and their low-level literacy” (News, 11 September) didn’t consider the issue of measurement performance indicators as themselves a possible...