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I went in to the lion’s den last week, accepting an invitation to join a British Academy policy forum titled “League Tables in the Public Sector”.Among 30 leading social scientists and policymakers...
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Allocation delays leave teacher training in limbo
Delays to the announcement of initial teacher-training funding allocations may lead to some courses being undersubscribed, an academic has warned.
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Spanish statecraft, the scholarly way
“I had not previously had any contact with politicians,” said Philip Pettit, the Irish-born Laurance S. Rockefeller university professor of politics and human values at Princeton University, “and...
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THE Prize Draw
To celebrate the launch of our new THE app and digital edition we are giving away an iPad.All current subscribers to THE and all those who take out a THE subscription between 21 January and 14...
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Trustees order revisions to employers’ pension reforms
The trustees of higher education’s biggest pension scheme have ordered changes to the employers’ plans for reform – but the University and College Union will press ahead with a strike ballot.
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‘Rationing’ fear as UK students fail to secure places
Record numbers of students have missed out on university places, new figures show.
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‘Academically adrift’? Authors question learning standards in US academy
What do undergraduates learn in four years’ study at American universities? In an alarming number of cases, absolutely nothing, according to a still-unreleased book that is causing a firestorm in the...
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Plain Ugly: The Unattractive Body in Early Modern Culture
Naomi Baker's handsome volume is a warts-and-all account of an overlooked feature of Renaissance studies: facial discrimination. Plain Ugly sounds like it should, by rights, come in a plain wrapper....
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Sport and the Military: The British Armed Forces 1880-1960
George Orwell once suggested that sport was war minus the shooting. In contemporary times, media reports frequently use militaristic language to describe sporting contests, and we often see reference...
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Selected: Why Some People Lead, Why Others Follow, and Why it Matters
Glynis M. Breakwell is engaged but not converted by this social evolutionary analysis of leadership
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Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry
During the latter part of the 20th century and the early 21st century, Romantic studies as a subject has increasingly shifted its focus away from Nature, with a capital "N", towards place, with a...
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Image Wars: Promoting Kings and Commonwealths in England, 1603-1660
At a time when our present Queen has recently opened a Facebook page, studying the image-making and "spin" strategies of past British monarchs seems to have added topicality. Kevin Sharpe's new and...
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The Firm: The Inside Story of the Stasi
Gareth Dale is intrigued by an account of small-town life in the secret police
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Soap, Science, and Flat-Screen TVs: A History of Liquid Crystals
David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin provide an inside view of the science of the liquid crystals that are responsible for the displays that have not only become our windows into the digital world, but have...
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Coleridge's Play of Mind
Playfulness and Samuel Taylor Coleridge? The two are not generally associated. After all, Thomas Carlyle compared Coleridge with "a hundred horse-power engine stuck in the mud and with the boiler...