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The week in higher education - 18 April 2013
After two years of taking flak from the Left for setting up an £18,000-a-year liberal arts college, A.C. Grayling is now in the cross hairs of the Right. His crime: not enough deference to the late...
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The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle by Bernhard Rieger
Ulrike Zitzlsperger on the evolution of an iconic vehicle
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Napalm: An American Biography by Robert M. Neer
Marilyn Young on the harrowing history of a chemical used to kill hundreds of thousands of people
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Soldier, Sailor, Beggarman, Thief: Crime and the British Armed Services since 1914 by Clive Emsley
A. W. Purdue on the prevalence of crime within the British armed forces
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Martin Cohen, Mary Evans, R.C. Richardson, Bruce Scharlau and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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PhD system risks leaving overseas students in the cold
Doctoral training centre model poses international challenge for institutions
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Efficiency can be too ruthless
The need to run a tight financial ship is important, but it cannot be the sole determiner of the shape of higher education
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What Sussex is losing...
Gurminder Bhambra supports the students and staff contesting the hollowing-out of the University of Sussex’s collegial ideals
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Mind the money, not the Moocs
Steve Smith warns of looming budgetary issues that could send institutions off the road
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No Medium by Craig Dworkin
David Revill on diverse art forms that focus on, literally, nothing
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Unfilled course numbers rise despite cutbacks
Do the data represent the failure of market research or are they the inevitable by-product of a broad curriculum?
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What Sussex is gaining...
It is morally wrong to deny University of Sussex students 24/7 support from flexible, professional campus services, says John Duffy
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Questions over credibility of border credibility interviews
Overseas students rejected on ‘arbitrary’ grounds, UKCISA report suggests
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THE Scholarly Web - 18 April 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere