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Harvard retains top spot in US rankings
Harvard University has topped its second university ranking in a week, taking the top spot in a national ranking of US universities in addition to its pole position in Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s...
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Private provider answers universities minister’s call
Kaplan, the for-profit higher education provider, is to offer tuition for external University of London degrees in a direct echo of a model for widening participation suggested by universities and...
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Dutch university aims to lure British students who lose out on UK places
A university in the Netherlands is hoping to attract some of the thousands of British students that may fail to gain a place after the A-level results are announced this week.Maastricht University is...
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Library investment benefits bottom line, survey states
Researchers believe they have found a correlation between investment in university library collections and levels of grant income. A 16-month study, led by Carol Tenopir, director of the Center for...
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US universities still the best, Chinese league table suggests
The US has retained its dominance in the annual world university ranking compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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How it Ends: From You to the Universe
The fate of humans and that of the entire Universe is unknowable but intriguing, finds Simon Mitton
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Moral Combat: A History of World War II
Between 1939 and 1941, nearly 3 million Jews were butchered not in concentration camps but in cold blood, at massacres such as the infamous Babi Yar, where visitors were even invited to watch the...
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Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Biography
Another book on Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), the Glasgow-born architect, painter and designer, may seem superfluous, but this new substantial volume, graced with superb colour plates by...
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Published this Week
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of MemoryBy Peter Read, professor of French, University of Kent. University of California Press, £24.95. ISBN...
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Book of the week: The Wind from the East
Beneath the political theory, the future: Tim Unwin asks whether it is still too soon to tell what May '68 meant
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When Doctors Kill - Who, Why and How
Lloyd Bradley finds this eclectic trawl through the profession's alleged killers a lot to stomach
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A Short History of Celebrity
While Leo Braudy's history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown, began in antiquity with specific reference to the self-publicising strategies of Alexander the Great, Fred Inglis, in A Short History of...
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The Canon: The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868. By V.A.C. Gatrell
I was a postgraduate when I read V.A.C. Gatrell's utterly gritty - and illustrated! - account of public hangings as a social and political ritual enacted over and over under England's "bloody code"....
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Cake: A Global History
Robert Appelbaum savours a small remembrance of gateaux past and is left hungry for more