The Oakland Promise, like a number of local schemes in the US, aims to be a ‘cradle to career’ programme moving more of the city’s children into higher education. John Morgan visits California to...
Do you feel you’re just winging it, waiting for the day when your incompetence is exposed? Six academics show that you’re far from alone
Book of the week: memoirs of the Weimar generation are formed into a powerful social history, writes Hester Vaizey
Neve Gordon lauds a forensic examination of the Palestinian territory and its 2 million inhabitants
Cat Zero, a novel by Jennifer Rohn, an infectious disease researcher, shines light on the backbiting and tensions of lab life as an unlikely team of scientists work to save the cats of Kent from a...
This study of God and country could ask more questions of its subjects, says Angelia Wilson
An insider’s view of the 2016 US election that lacks insight frustrates Lennard Davis
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Scholars keep feelings of inferiority well cloaked yet self-doubt can strike any of us and only disclosure alleviates the pain of this hidden epidemic
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The report on Dr Malcolm Anderson’s suicide (“Tragic suicide ‘a wake-up call’”) is shocking. He made valuable contributions to the community of those interested in the history of accounting and how...
David Matthews’ article on the backlash in the Netherlands to the use of English in university courses, “Dutch seek curbs on anglophone students”, has particular relevance to Wales. Welsh...
“To the mark, the marker” raises some interesting points about marking. As someone who has moved their first-year module exams for more than 200 students from an end-of-year (or even end-of-semester...
There is in both Ann Oakley’s book Women, Peace and Welfare: A Suppressed History of Social Reform, 1880-1920 and in Emma Rees’ review of it an important omission – the significance of social workers...