IUSS reaction: ‘Quality control’ is the problem, not the solution
More of the same won’t allow us to reform the British system effectively, writes Florian Bieber
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Beef up QAA to police sector, say MPs
‘Defensive complacency’ over standards requires monitoring by independent agency that can remove degree-awarding powers, says select committee report. Hannah Fearn writes
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IUSS reaction: Right questions, wrong answer
QAA chief Peter Williams gives his verdict on the IUSS report
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MPs single out whistleblower case for scrutiny
Select committee says treatment of Manchester Met lecturer warranted specific coverage. Hannah Fearn reports
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Tara Brabazon: The hare or the tortoise?
We live in a society where speed of communication rules, but Tara Brabazon asks if fast is necessarily better, particularly when it comes to learning
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Susan Price to take the reins at Leeds Met
UEL’s acting v-c will assume the role next January. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: In Search of Civilization
Fred Inglis admires the ambition more than the paean to advertising
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Higher Education in the United Kingdom since 1945
Telling the history of higher education in one volume is a tall order, says Geoffrey Alderman
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War: A Short History
Jeremy Black is a realist. He foresees no Utopian end to human history. In this brief book, he aims to re-examine war, a dominant and continuing force in the modern world, "by providing a short...
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The Canon: Documents in Mycenaean Greek. By Michael Ventris and John Chadwick
When I was born on 6 October 1951, a 29-year-old British architect was working away in a flat in the Highpoint apartments in Highgate, London. He was finally seeing glimmers of the light at the end...
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Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris
Elizabeth Rechniewski revels in a scholarly account of Parisians breaking the bounds of normality
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Boundless Faith: The Global Outreach of American Churches
Robert Wuthnow has been one of the leading and most prolific sociological commentators on American religion for the past three decades. His most recent book, true to form, is topical and grounded in...
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The Generalissimo • The Age of Openness • Global Shanghai, 1850-2010
Jonathan Fenby takes a mixed view of a new examination of the Chinese leader eclipsed by Mao
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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
Anthropologists have studied art since the 19th century. They have learnt which approaches are worth the candle, and which aren't. Denis Dutton's book is a counterblast to this intellectual tradition...
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Thriving on a Riff
Trevor Herbert finds resonance in an account of the influence of jazz on American books and films