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Songs of the Factory: Pop Music, Culture, and Resistance, by Marek Korczynski
Les Gofton admires an ethnographic study exploring how workers escape the daily grind
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Would a university hide a scholar who had committed a crime?
An academic’s conviction as a paedophile was kept under wraps in the 1990s. Would a cover-up happen today, asks Geoffrey Alderman
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Freedom of speech trumps safety on campus
Why are today’s students so preoccupied with protecting themselves from potentially ‘harmful’ ideas, asks Tom Slater
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Interview with David Lodge
As he turns 80, the writer discusses the ‘golden age’ of universities and the (imagined) sexual indiscretions of academics
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A Scientist in Wonderland: A Memoir of Searching for Truth and Finding Trouble, by Edzard Ernst
Helen Bynum admires a physician’s quest to distinguish alternative medicine from quackery
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Warwick’s costs pass £100K as it foots Thomas Docherty’s legal bill
Picking up professor’s tab for defending himself in tribunal adds £66,000 to university’s expenses arising out of suspension
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Is ‘academic citizenship’ under strain?
A wide range of essential under-the-radar tasks sustain academic culture, but who will perform them in an increasingly careerist academy?
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MPs launch early day motion on international students
A cross-party group of MPs has launched a fresh bid to get international students removed from the UK’s net migration target.
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Terrorism bill will make universities ‘agents of the state’, warns vice-chancellor
Anthony Forster explains why university leaders have strong concerns about the proposals
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Free school meal pupils ‘half as likely’ to attend Russell Group university
School pupils eligible for free school meals are half as likely to go to a Russell Group university after completing A levels, new figures suggest
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Mena snapshot puts Texas A&M at Qatar in top spot
Qatar and Lebanon are the top performers in a snapshot of what a new ranking for universities in the Middle East and North Africa could look like
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Baroness Blackstone criticises ‘lousy’ private colleges
Students enrolling at ‘lousy’ private colleges should not be allowed to access public funding, a former education minister and vice-chancellor has said
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University leaders call for exemption from anti-terror laws
Twenty-four university leaders have urged the government to exempt universities from the counter-terrorism bill or risk harming academic freedom
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Funding for Scottish universities 'held back'
Scottish universities have accused the Holyrood government of ‘holding back’ £21.5 million of funding for the sector