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Jobs intelligence - Premier league transfer
‘Inspirational’ pro vice-chancellor will help lead university as it expands from city centre base to new £450m campus. David Matthews writes
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Water, water everywhere. Why not ask an expert? wonders Phil Ashworth
Experts on flooding abound in the academy. Why are they ignored by government? asks Phil Ashworth
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Is the IoE wise to yoke itself to UCL?
Specialist institutions may find it difficult to go it alone in today’s academy but mergers may bring few benefits, says Miriam David
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It is time for philosophers to refocus, say John Kaag and David O’Hara
In the age of the bottom line, it is time for philosophy to refocus on what actually matters, argue John Kaag and David O’Hara
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Malcolm Gillies - Should London go it alone?
Does London need the rest of the UK? Malcolm Gillies weighs the evidence
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Letters
Students need a tough consumer advocateMartin McQuillan argues that the market for undergraduate higher education is broken and that Which? should step away from the role we have played as an...
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Team teaching stops the lone lecturer going stale
Interdisciplinary team teaching is rare in the UK, but Robert Zaretsky argues that crossing subject boundaries can help academics to stave off intellectual mustiness
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A market resting on shaky foundations
Viewing homes as assets to be traded is a failure that preserves inequality, finds Tim Hall
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Portrait of a poet
Eva Shan Chou lauds an original, erudite portrait of a writer whose courage matched her creativity
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Tribal Modern, by miriam cooke
Discussion of underground and emergent queer cultures are interesting, but Caroline Osella wishes for more insight from a respected scholar
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The Politics of the Body, by Alison Phipps
Mary Evans agrees that feminism today focuses on women’s agency and identity at the expense of examining framing structures
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Literature in the First Media Age, by David Trotter
Gary Day on an exploration of new technologies’ effects on artists’ representation of the world
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Rebellion, by Tim Harris
Ronald Hutton praises a tour de force on the causes of the English Civil War