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I've never before - in 40-odd years of writing books - asked for the right of reply to a review, but I feel I have to in the case of James Stevens Curl's extraordinary notice of The Battle of the...
I've never before - in 40-odd years of writing books - asked for the right of reply to a review, but I feel I have to in the case of James Stevens Curl's extraordinary notice of The Battle of the...
Roger Brown offers a dystopian vision of the future of higher education in the light of forthcoming policy changes ("Quality street blues", 2 June). Many in the sector will share his pessimism.The...
I understand Julia Swindells' frustration with anonymous reviews of manuscripts and grant proposals ("Critics, show yourselves", Letters, 2 June), but revealing the identity of reviewers would cause...
Delegates at the UCU congress voted overwhelmingly for a motion to reject the European Union Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia's (EUMC) working definition of anti-Semitism, a set of...

It's only the shark that Duncan Wu feels for in a self-righteous true-life tale of triumph over tragedy

If this is our best in sport and entertainment, mourns Gary Day, it doesn't engender national pride

Anyone roaming the halls of the geography department at the University of Leicester in the 1970s and 1980s would have been familiar with David Turnock and his Imperial typewriter; the sound of his...

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University of WarwickSee it, smell it, love itA trip to the zoo can form a vital part of a child's education about science and conservation, according to a study. Research conducted at London Zoo by...

These amulets form part of a collection held at the University of Michigan's Taubman Health Sciences Library.
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By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed

The backlash against plans for a new £18,000-a-year college for the humanities intensified when protesters set off a flare during a talk by the institution’s founding master.

Academics at the University of Oxford have voted through a motion of “no confidence” in David Willetts, the universities and science minister.