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The Scientific Sherlock Holmes: Cracking the Case with Science and Forensics by James O’Brien
Stephen Wade on the accurate contemporary science behind the Holmesian investigations
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Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith: New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina by Vincanne Adams
Kevin Fox Gotham on the negative consequences of privatised disaster services and aid work
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Academic Armageddon: An Irish Requiem for Higher Education by Mary Gallagher
Sue Norton on the difficult days ahead for Ireland’s academy as bureaucracy and consumerisation seem set to increase
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Characters Of Blood: Black Heroism In The Transatlantic Imagination by Céleste-Marie Bernier
Catherine Clinton on a creative and contextual analysis of the visual art of enslaved blacks
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Murdoch’s Politics: How One Man’s Thirst for Wealth and Power Shapes Our World by David McKnight
Ivor Gaber on what motivates Rupert Murdoch
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German academics boycott CHE ranking system
Scholars tired of ‘constant’ data requests. Frances Mechan Schmidt writes
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Tech transfer blighted by 'blundering jobsworths'
Master of Trinity says technology transfer offices can be more hindrance than help
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ELQ loans could turn part-time rhetoric into reality
Ministers advised to reverse ban on second degree funding
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Hefce unveils allocations for 2013-14
Further shrinkage as funding reforms take fuller effect
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Life after Aimhigher: access from the ground level
The sector should take the lead on the mooted national widening-participation framework, says Graeme Atherton
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QAA queries UK's most international degree course
Foreign students struggle to gain recognition for Oxford Brookes’ distance-learning qualification.
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Concern over ‘one-size-fits-all’ visa service fee
Premium route to highly trusted sponsor status will cost £8k a year. David Matthews reports
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Universities pay thrice for open access: Durham v-c
Christopher Higgins details academy’s cost burden to Booksellers Association conference