Focus on recruiting foreign students reveals ‘mission drift’
Pro v-c at Nottingham Trent attacks ‘profit chasing’ in sector and calls time on marketing speak
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Foreign students: a belated welcome
James Brokenshire, the immigration minister, said that he wanted to ‘underline’ a ‘message of welcome’ to international students
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Former Leeds student loses appeal against removal of PhD scholarship
Sanaz Raji criticises eight-month wait for decision from the Office of the Independent Adjudicator
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Cinematic deconstruction: Derrida gets a close-up
Film draws on 1980 work to expose philosopher’s ideas to general audience
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Rwanda in Photographs: Death Then, Life Now
Shahidha Bari finds vivid and lurid representations of the unnerving normality of the everyday in today’s Rwanda
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Sara Clethero, David Eastwood, George McKay, Diane Richardson and Sharon Ruston…
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer’s, by Dick Swaab
Tristan Bekinschtein would prefer to see all the evidence considered when determining what makes us the way we are
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Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World, by Mitchell Stephens
Gavin Hyman on the importance of atheistic thought in human cultural development
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Žižek’s Jokes (Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?), by Slavoj Žižek
Robert Eaglestone bridles at provocative, yet tired, ‘quips’ from the Elvis of philosophers
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The Ambiguity of Virtue: Gertrude van Tijn and the Fate of the Dutch Jews, by Bernard Wasserstein
Victoria Harris longs for more illumination in history of an unsung wartime heroine
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Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Soul, by Peter Tyler
Jane Shaw praises a subtle and emotionally astute reading of the saint’s language of the spirit
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Groundbreaking science is blind to prejudice
Hiranya Peiris rebuts the Daily Mail’s impoverished worldview of scientists
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A profitable alignment of interests
Johnny Rich on a simple change that could erase student debt, fund universities and boost employability - without costing taxpayers more
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Reality has no manual
How do you prepare students for the impossible? asks Kevin Fong
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The Muslims Are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism and the Domestic War on Terror, by Arun Kundnani
Lars Berger on a critique of counter-radicalisation strategies