Government axemen on the lookout for targets
Universities UK head is ‘bluntly’ quizzed over where cuts should be made. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Sussex’s future: fewer staff, more students
University plans 100 ‘targeted’ job cuts while increasing student numbers. John Morgan reports
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Push to bring digital economy together will divide it
The Government’s plan for the digital sector displays a lack of understanding of the new modes of cultural production, argue Joss Hands and Jussi Parikka
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MRC head to take top job at Cambridge
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz will take the reins in October 2010. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Book of the week: No Enchanted Palace
Simon Rushton on a unorthodox account of how the UN was born
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Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture
Words and meanings change over time, but this narrative leaves Lynne Segal craving more analysis
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The Historiographic Perversion
While the mass killings of the Armenians in 1915, which claimed more than 1 million lives, have been recognised as a genocide by many historians and more than 20 governments around the world, there...
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The Canon: Les Regles de l'Art: Genese et Structure du Champ Litteraire. By Pierre Bourdieu
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is perhaps best known for La Distinction (1979), but it is his 1992 work Les Regles de l'Art that in my view best sums up the themes he explored...
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The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World
To tackle the Earth's problems, we must look at the culture behind them, finds Laurence Coupe
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Demobbed: Coming Home After World War Two
Men serving on the front line are like puppets on a string, postulated German playwright Wolfgang Borchert on his return from the Eastern Front: all individual thought and impulses reduced to an...
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The American Civil War
The American Civil War, or as we prefer to call it in the South, the War Between the States (or, alternatively, the War of Northern Aggression or the War for Southern Independence), has captivated me...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- The Theory of Island Biogeography RevisitedEdited by Jonathan B. Losos, professor in organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard University, and Robert E....
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No happiness at Poppleton - official
One of our leading low-scoring RAE academics has joined in the debate about the value of the ESRC's £4.4 million project investigating the relationship between work and happiness.Dr Quintock, of the...
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Go find those marrows
Sally Feldman mourns the demise of local papers and regional television
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Research intelligence: Saved from extinction
A new funding scheme aims to revive research in systematics and taxonomy. Zoe Corbyn reports