Imperial creates two new leadership roles in drive for external funds
Imperial College London on 30 April announced that is to create two leadership roles of “president and rector” and “provost” in a shift to a US-style senior structure.
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Inside Higher Ed: Doctrinal matters reignite tensions on Catholic campuses
By Libby A. Nelson for Inside Higher Ed
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Universities are central to economy, but cannot stand still, Blair says
Former prime minister Tony Blair has called for UK higher education to be seen as “a major export” – but warned that universities risk being “left behind” if they do not adjust to change, including...
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Harvard backs open access in face of ‘prohibitive’ journal costs
A committee of senior Harvard academics has urged the university’s staff to publish in open access journals amid concern that the cost of journal subscriptions is becoming “untenable”.
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Ministers unveil plan to step up market for places
The government has announced that uncapped recruitment of the highest-achieving students at A-level will be extended to the ABB threshold in 2013-14, while a further 5,000 places will be allocated to...
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UEL v-c to lead Million+
The Million+ group of post-1992 universities has appointed Patrick McGhee, the vice-chancellor of the University of East London, as its new chair.
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The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
Maleiha Malik applauds a road map that seeks to lead the West away from intolerance of Muslims
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The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton
Willy Maley is tickled by an unexpected, less puritanical reading of post-Reformation culture
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Love Online
Love Online, first published in French as Sex @mour, seeks to document people's experiences, post-millennium, with respect to the rise of internet-mediated dating. Sociologist Jean-Claude Kaufmann...
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The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
Next year will mark the 30th anniversary of the publication of Jack Zipes' Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, a milestone in fairy tale studies that challenged a century of scholarship on the...
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Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets
David Gewanter applauds a literary - and scientific - exploration of the Bard's poetic longevity
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Simulating War: Studying Conflict Through Simulation Games
Computers have not eclipsed manual board war gaming. This is the strong message delivered in Philip Sabin's Simulating War. This book is about war gaming, and if you are expecting a traditional...
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Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary's Life
Leon Trotsky remains a compelling and controversial figure for historians, with two major biographies since 2009. Bertrand Patenaude's Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky is a...
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The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines
Jon Turney on one scientist's successful efforts to resist the relentless assaults of the denialists
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Evolution and Belief: Confessions of a Religious Palaeontologist
"Man, when he enters the world, is naturally led to inquire who he is, whence he comes; whither he is going; for what purpose he is created..." So wrote Carl Gustav Linnaeus in 1788 and it is very...