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“Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation, by Nancy Weiss Malkiel
Book of the week: A history of the fight to share elite spaces focuses on gender over race and class, says Mary Evans
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What are you reading? – 13 October 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Welcome to the Universe: An Astrophysical Tour, by Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss and J. Richard Gott
Celestial bodies are stripped of mystery in a lively guide that sounds a warning, says Marcus Chown
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, by Yuval Noah Harari
Simon Underdown on a historian contemplating future challenges arising from modern lifestyles and technology
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Existentialism and Excess: The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre, by Gary Cox
Claims for genius require more than repeated assertion to make the case, says Martin Cohen
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Living by Numbers: In Defence of Quantity, by Steven Connor
This provocative argument for the importance of number in the humanities is full of wit and insight, says Tony Mann
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National University of Singapore’s use of skills data sparks debate
But academics argue against narrow teaching focus and warn that technical skills have a ‘half-life’
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Books interview: Catherine Merridale
The author of Lenin on the Train reminisces about Alain-Fournier’s Le Grand Meaulnes, and talks about travel books as histories and the ‘surreal time and place’ of revolutionary Russia
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The week in higher education – 13 October 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 13 October 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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A satisfyingly simple solution
With four months having passed since the publication in ߣߣƵ of a mock league table of the teaching excellence framework (“A new perspective”, Features, 23 June), one could make a...