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A sales tax dividend could be just the ticket for a US sector hit by wave after wave of state cuts, opines Hamid Shirvani
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Sins of omission: REF should give full picture for the taxpayers' sake
Allowing universities to cherry-pick the scholars they submit for assessment is bad news for transparency, argues Miles Hewstone
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Freedom to succeed
Combining funding and regulatory roles is hard, says Roger King. To do it successfully, Hefce must adopt a more autonomous stance
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Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
Katharine Reeve on an intriguing exploration of how our physical and virtual identities are merging
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Spies and Commissars: Bolshevik Russia and the West
Harold Shukman on a fascinating study of Britain's daring wartime plans for counter-revolution
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Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman
Over the course of Edith Wharton's long writing career, her women characters do grow up, in notable contrast to her male characters; and, insist Janet Beer and Avril Horner in their book Edith...
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume 1 - Microspherology
Few academics in the UK will have read the writings of Peter Sloterdijk, but in Germany he is a superstar. His 1983 book Critique of Cynical Reason remains the best-selling philosophical work written...
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Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others
The law and order brigade actually makes the US a more violent place, Joanna Bourke learns
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The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature
When I picked up this book, I was expecting two things: a study of the creative retelling of a key classical myth (or its reception) in children's literature; and a focus on texts of fantasy fiction...
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Ten Popes Who Shook the World
Like it or loathe it, you can't really ignore the papacy. It's the world's oldest dynasty, and it commands the loyalty of nearly a fifth of the world's population and the attention of a great many...
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Yayoi Kusama: Look Now, See Forever
Peter Hill admires a Japanese artist whose obsessive nature has led to the production of works at an incomparable rate
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Diary
EdinburghThe Sculpture ShowThis major exhibition, which continues at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art until 24 June, celebrates sculpture in all its many forms. Taking over all the...
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The Pick - Five-ring circus of the arts
Credit: Bregezer Festspiele/Karl ForsterCiao bella: Judith Weir's Miss Fortune updates a Sicilian folk taleThe Olympic year will bring with it the London 2012 Festival, modestly billed as "the...
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Your 2012 resolution: don't make one
Our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has reminded all academic staff that the making of New Year's resolutions is a violation of official university policy.He told our reporter...
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Leader: Perils of the export business
Although UK institutions' foreign-accreditation initiatives have been largely problem-free, even a few disasters are too many