PhD to be investigated amid further suspicion of research misconduct
Imperial College London has announced it is reviewing the award of a PhD to a former student after it emerged that the paper that formed the basis of his thesis is to be retracted.
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Majority do not believe a degree is worth £9k, opinion poll suggests
Less than a third of British adults think a university education is worth £9,000 a year, while 59 per cent think two-year degrees are a good money-saving solution, according to an opinion poll.
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The End: Hitler's Germany, 1944-45
The Führer and his absolute power forced Germans to fight on when all was lost, Jill Stephenson finds
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Octavia, Daughter of God: The Story of a Female Messiah and Her Followers
Beliefs that now seem delusional made more sense in a doomsday context, says June Purvis
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Richard Bentley: Poetry and Enlightenment
When J.H. Monk published his great Life of Richard Bentley in 1830, he could count on his readers' general knowledge of the scholarship he discussed. That knowledge has been largely lost, and in...
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Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages
Hamlet, David Bevington concludes, "helps us to understand ourselves and who we are socially". It's quite a claim, but one that this slender vessel ably justifies. Bevington synthesises the Hamlet...
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The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France
Handbags at the dawn of the modern age? There's more to it than that, writes Biancamaria Fontana
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Reinventing Higher Education: The Promise of Innovation
Amid the current speculation in the UK about new providers entering the embryonic higher education marketplace comes this timely book from the US. In it one quickly discovers that "reinventing"...
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The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean
In this work of a lifetime dedicated grandly "a la memoria de mis antecesores", David Abulafia surveys a Mediterranean world from a hunters' camp near Rome, set up "435,000 years before the present...
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Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital
Sally Feldman despairs of an analysis of gender politics that would return us to the Dark Ages
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'Could do better', but please don't sue me for saying so
Fear of litigation has left some scholars unwilling to criticise students' work. David Matthews reports
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Funding cuts leave agricultural college in need of new cash cow
Harper Adams typifies the uncertain financial future faced by specialist institutions. John Morgan writes
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News in brief
United StatesAnti-Semitic, not censorshipThe American Jewish Committee (AJC) has rejected a claim by one of its own officials that some complaints of anti-Semitic incidents on campus amounted to...
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UK aims to play South Korean catch-up
The Korean "goose father" stays at home, making the money needed to keep his children and their mother in a US nest so that his goslings can win places at elite American universities - while he earns...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL• Award winner: Vincenzo Vergiani• Institution: University of Cambridge• Value: £725,2The intellectual and religious traditions of South Asia as seen through the...