Universities’ black and minority ethnic staff still encounter ‘significant disadvantage’
Efforts to promote race equality in higher education have petered out and had "little impact", a conference has heard.
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London Met v-c urged to apologise for alcohol comments
The president of London Metropolitan University students’ union has called for the vice-chancellor to apologise after he suggested the sale of alcohol should be banned from parts of the campus...
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Rammell to take over in Bedfordshire
The University of Bedfordshire has appointed Bill Rammell, formerly a higher education minister under Labour, as its new vice-chancellor.
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Oxbridge appeals to Osborne: allow donors to keep giving generously
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have joined the campaign against a cap on tax relief for philanthropic donations amid fears that it could cost the sector millions of pounds.
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God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell
Much of Blair Worden's recent work has been devoted to exploring the interface between literature and history in early modern England. Marchamont Nedham, Andrew Marvell and John Milton came together...
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College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
Alan Ryan learns what the liberal-arts ideals of the US academy's founders can teach us today
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The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power
Polly Jones is impressed by a rigorous iconography of one of the age of extremes' greatest tyrants
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Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science
Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, stirred up a storm in 2005 by suggesting that women are under-represented in science owing to "issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly...
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Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat
When scientists attempt to play international politics, it usually ends in tears. The physicist Jo Rotblat, one of the first physicists to work on the Bomb, was one of the few to have bucked the...
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How Economics Shapes Science
James Wilsdon applauds an acute analysis of the mixed influence money has on scientific practice
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Fear of Food: A History of Why We Worry about What We Eat
The clue to some of this book's limitations, from a British point of view, is in the name. "We" who worry and "we" who eat are American (and middle class). Many very good books, received with...
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Illustrators must draw outside the lines to fulfil their creative urges
A lecturer in the subject urges his peers to escape the commercial straitjacket. Matthew Reisz writes
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Want to know who may not stay the course?
Service outlining prospective students' likelihood of dropping out worries some, writes David Matthews
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Junior researchers led a merry dance as up to 300 circle each post
As many as 300 academics are chasing each junior research post at top institutions.
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Raising the bars a 'moral' matter
V-c: London Met's large Muslim population makes booze 'culturally sensitive'. David Matthews reports