The Dynamics of Disaster, by Susan W. Kieffer
Alison Stokes on natural catastrophes and the need to use collective wisdom to cope with them
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Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil, by Victoria Langland
Sarah Sarzynski on an analysis of student activism during Brazil’s military dictatorship
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Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City, by Bradley L. Garrett
Tim Hall takes a ride with the urban explorers obsessed with penetrating the half-built, derelict or hidden parts of our cities
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The Hamlet Doctrine, by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster
Peter J. Smith on non-Lit Crit efforts to find the method in the Danish prince’s madness
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Abandoned to Ourselves, by Peter Alexander Meyers
Biancamaria Fontana on a mannered criticism of Enlightenment thought
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Pythagorean Women: Their History and Writings, by Sarah B. Pomeroy
Barbara Graziosi on female adherents to an ancient philosophy
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REF more burdensome than RAE, pro v-cs state
THE straw poll shows efforts to lighten load have backfired
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Pets in the academic workplace
Petting animals can help to overcome social barriers which can lead to improved learning for students, says Erin McKenna
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Pearson profits from private expansion
‘Uncontrolled’ growth in HNCs and HNDs may lead to university retrenchment
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Belinda Jack on cliché, the nemesis of thought
Academics must counter ‘verbicide’, which constrains expression, to foster new ideas and ways of seeing
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PR disaster
It is bad practice for university press officers to edit information about their institutions on Wikipedia (“WikiTweaks: PR staff wield the airbrush for warts and all removalâ€, 21 November): indeed,...
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Twilight of the mission groups?
Ourania Filippakou and Ted Tapper consider whether they are heading for extinction
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Qualifications ‘snobbery’ holds back poorer students
Traditional ‘royal route’ to a degree holds sway over credit transfers
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YouthSight shows how to tap irrational postgrad decision-making
Firm looks at potential for using behavioural economics in student recruitment
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Employment skills don’t fit with academic degrees
UK needs more vocational higher education alongside traditional courses, says Nick Davy