THE Student Experience Survey 2013 results
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To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program 1957-1975 by Kendrick Oliver
Man has always looked to the heavens.†When I was teaching a space history course at undergraduate level, an inordinate number of students wanted to start their human spaceflight essays with some...
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Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction by Judie Newman
In 2002 Martin Amis said: “After a couple of hours at their desks on September 12, 2001, all the writers on earth were reluctantly considering a change of occupation.†Many said that 9/11 could not,...
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Mental uncertainty principles
Tristan Bekinschtein recommends a challenge to our notions of consciousness and cognition
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On the Edge: The Contested Cultures of English Suburbia by Rupa Huq
This is the end…my beautiful friend…†Jim Morrison’s voice filters through the thin walls of my Travelodge suite as the lorries rumble along the M25 into the dark heart of suburbia.This is going to...
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The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal
Bonobos could teach God a thing or two about morality. If you have heard of these great apes, it is probably because their libidinous nature evokes that of a better-known primate depicted by...
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Fresh perspectives on ‘savage’ ground
Neil Rennie on the observers and the observed in global cultural exchanges of the 18th century
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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On your Marx
Sheila Rowbotham on a portrait of a thinker who was neither infallible nor entirely prophetic
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REF request denied
Paul Magrs was flabbergasted when an institution he had left almost a decade before and had not heard from since asked to use his work to demonstrate impact in the REF. Here, he sets down the...
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Do you think this is working?
The viva, the final hurdle to gaining a PhD, is labour-intensive, not conducted to any national standard and is dreaded by students who fear an examiner will capriciously halt their career. Is it...
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Campus round-up
Fit to printA group of illustration students are bringing traditional printmaking skills back to the defunct press room of a local newspaper. The former press room at the Bournemouth Echo building,...
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Thatcher’s academic paradox
Margaret Thatcher was committed to freedom, but under her reign state power over universities increased. Vernon Bogdanor assesses her legacy to education
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Malcolm Gillies - Saga holidays
Malcolm Gillies discusses Parsifal and Wagner’s bicentenary
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Toby Miller shakily recalls an airborne brush with terror
Toby Miller recalls a paralysing encounter with terror in the skies and asks: in my shoes, would you have reacted differently?