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I am about to begin my 20thĀ year of teaching in the UK: 12 years at Lancaster University and nowĀ in my eighth year at the University of Aberdeen
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Huge variation in US academicsā pay
Alan Ryan reflects on the lack of uniformity in salaries for leaders of American higher education institutions
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Rocket Girl: The Story of Mary Sherman Morgan, Americaās First Female Rocket Scientist, by George D. Morgan
Margaret Weitekamp on a woman who helped get the US space programme off the ground
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Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology and Geology of the Underworld, by Salomon Kroonenberg
Alison Stokes enjoys a tour of the physical and metaphorical lands of fire and brimstone
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Matthew Feldman, Dennis Hayes, Karen McAulay, June Purvis and Sara Read...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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July 1914: Countdown to War, by Sean McMeekin
A startling exercise in revisionism leads A. W. Purdue to ponder which nation was responsible for launching the great conflict
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Resistance: Jews and Christians Who Defied the Nazi Terror, by Nechama Tec
Rachel L. Einwohner on those who stood against the Holocaust
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Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing, by Didier Fassin
Vicky Conway on the corrosive effect of unchecked power
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Christianity and the University Experience: Understanding Student Faith, by Mathew Guest, Kristin Aune, Sonya Sharma and Rob Warner
Religious belief is alive and well on campus, observes Gerald Pillay
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Spanish Golden Age Theatre Season, Theatre Royal, Bath
Jonathan Thacker hopes that three comedia nueva plays - combining comedy and tragedy - will herald a revival of a lesser-known art form
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Fees fault line may reopen at Lib Dem conference
Opposition grows over motion to āretain current system of financeā
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MPs question RCUKās gold standard
Committee points to āgaps in qualitative and quantitative evidenceā for Finch report recommendations
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Obamaās rankings wonāt solve crisis in US academy
More government cash is the only way to cut student costs, argue Rudy Fichtenbaum and Hank Reichman
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Indian students may be priced out of UK by falling rupee
Sterlingās strength may mean weak recruitment, higher education sector warns
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Only the lonely
āIn my opinion, both universities areĀ far too mealy-mouthed about theĀ whole business.āThis was the typically frank response of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to the news that...