Poor return on investment
Regarding “Israel Academia Monitor fears the enemy within” (News, 16 May): your article misses an important part of our round-table debate on academic freedom in Israel.Radical scholars who use their...
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Come join in our crusade
The Tories have unleashed the biggest assault on ordinary people for generations. It needs to be met head-on.The People’s Assembly Against Austerity is a key opportunity to bring together all those...
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Asset management
Times Higher Education warned recently of a “stark choice” of where spending cuts must be made as a result of the government’s spending review (“Hobson’s choice? Not if we can help it”, News, 16 May...
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Bin the sour grapes and check the spec
István Aranyosi has left us in little doubt about his prowess as a budding researcher, and I certainly hope that he fulfils his promise (“No one should be hired on the basis of whether their face...
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The week in higher education - 30 May 2013
If it had wanted to, the Home Office could have issued a loud raspberry to its critics in the higher education sector after figures showed a rise in visa applications for university study. Overall...
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Roger Brown, Sylvia Brown, Michael Patrick Cullinane, Sandra Leaton Gray and Gordon Thomas...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History by Derek Sayer
Marta Filipová on compelling tales of a city’s artistic, intellectual and political cultures
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Northern Ireland: The Reluctant Peace by Feargal Cochrane
Cheryl Lawther on a history of the conflict and peace process and how the past continues to affect current attitudes
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Top Student, Top School? How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go To College by Alexandria Walton Radford
Sandra Leaton Gray on inequality in access to higher education in the US as a result of class
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Ambient Commons: Attention in the Age of Embodied Information by Malcolm McCullough
Tara Brabazon on a rare and evocative exploration of how to cope with digital overload
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Johnson and Boswell: A Biography of Friendship by John B. Radner
Willy Maley finds men behaving badly in this compelling account of a literary coupling
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Weird Life: The Search for Life that is Very, Very Different From Our Own by David Toomey
Lewis Dartnell regrets that a discussion of extreme life forms focuses on faint possibility rather than wondrous reality
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Youth unsure of university cost-benefit analysis
Tuition fees major concern for schoolchildren, Sutton Trust discovers
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Judgment on plagiarism: it’s for academics to judge
OIA can overrule verdicts only in rare circumstances, High Court finds