To provide teaching of quality, we must get back to our roots
Tradition, not the empty processes of the 'excellence' agenda, offers the academy a road map to higher standards, says Thomas Docherty
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Leader: Come to build, not to cash in
India aims to complete its global rise by inviting foreigners to help revamp higher education, but get-rich-quick artists need not apply
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From where I sit - The ultimate test of value
Every year when the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) takes place, the nation holds it breath. Over consecutive days in June, cities across China fall silent and parents pray that their...
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Robin Mason, 1945-2009
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University of Oxford - Mixing business with students
A student consultancy has been set up at the University of Oxford, where undergraduates offer free advice to local organisations. The programme follows a recent pilot scheme, with consultancy work...
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Book of the week: Cosmopolitan Islanders
A.W. Purdue reflects on Britain's abiding interest in the Continent's past
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Black Beauty, Aesthetics, Stylization, Politics
Maxine Leeds Craig discusses the highlights and lowlights of black women's beautifying practices
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The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy
On a clear night, it is nice to look up and imagine that all the stars form a unified celestial community. They do, of course, in a sense. But they are much farther away from each other (and us) than...
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The Canon: Dictionnaire Raisonné de L'Architecture Française du XIe au XVIe Siècle. By Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
I have long admired the immense contribution made to the Enlightenment by French scholars, especially Denis Diderot, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and others manifest in that vast undertaking, the...
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Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking
A study of a homosexual subculture will provoke debate from all quarters, discovers Ken Plummer
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Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach
Any book that defends the humanities is to be welcomed. The threat to their existence is not just from the politicians who want to make them more business-facing but from those within their own ranks...
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The Pluto Files
Dale E. Gary enjoys reading about the surprising public outcry that followed Pluto's demotion
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The Fenian Problem: Insurgency and Terrorism in a Liberal State, 1858-1874
The modern history of the "Irish Question" begins with Fenianism, a mid-Victorian organisation that developed and adapted the strategies of militant nationalist activity that would become commonplace...
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Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests: The Supernatural in Eighteenth-Century Musical Theater
In the past two decades, musicologists have realised the importance of putting an operatic work in a historical, cultural, theatrical and literary context. For the most part, the research of opera...