The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
Renaissance writers knew the seductive power of swerving. John Milton, in The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649), sensed the English people baulking at the killing of the king: "Another sort......
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Dickens and London
Charles Dickens' London, full of strangeness, suffering and laughter, is ever closer to today's metropolis, John Bowen argues
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Diary
BBC Radio 4Blue Notes, Cold NightsA generation of African-American musicians escaped racism at home to build new lives, and create new music, in Scandinavia. In Blue Notes, Cold Nights, country blues...
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The Pick - You Can't Take It With You
You Can't Take It With YouRoyal Exchange, ManchesterUntil 14 January 2012The extended Sycamore clan are the ultimate lovably eccentric family. Grandpa Vanderhof, the head of the household, gave up a...
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Best at nothing - again
For the seventh year in a row, our university failed to win a single award of any kind at the ߣߣƵ Awards in London's luxurious Grosvenor House Hotel.Despite entering in a record...
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1994 Group: U-Multirank will do UK a disservice
A European Commission-funded project to compare universities is “unlikely to further boost the profile of UK institutions and may actually confuse the picture for prospective applicants”, the 1994...
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Research intelligence - No Frozen assets, but plenty to see
The Open University's pro v-c for research on impact, doctorates and the digital space. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
• A journalism lecturer and former News of the World reporter arrested in connection with the phone-hacking scandal says she has "never been involved in the interception of telecommunications"....
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Leader: Soul path to course corrections
In a reformed sector, marketers should play a role in the creation of degrees - but academics must remain in charge of the process
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From where I sit - Failed state of education
For far too long, Nigeria's leaders have ignored the hidden factors underpinning the dismal performance of the country's university system.Recently, the newspapers quoted Namadi Sambo, Nigeria's vice...
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Appointments
London Metropolitan UniversityCécile TschirhartLondon Metropolitan University has appointed its first dean of students to act as a "champion of the student experience". Cécile Tschirhart was...
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Bless us with a silent night
Felipe Fernández-Armesto finds little joy in Christmas hymns and carols
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Surfdom
The internet has revolutionised humanities research. But has the development of ever-more sophisticated online resources freed up scholars to explore new ideas, or made them slaves to the digital...
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The new new thing
MIT's Media Lab, long renowned for a 'Wild West' research culture that invents the future, has lost some of its cutting edge. Can a new director restore it to its creative zenith? asks Zoë Corbyn
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'Delivery'? We are teachers, not milkmen
Today's corporate vocabulary, freely and unthinkingly deployed by university leaders, was a product of the military. It was then adopted by the first modern big businesses, the railways, in the 19th...