Researchers welcome Science and Technology Committee’s comeback
But lack of dedicated oversight for university policy worries v-cs. Rebecca Attwood and Zoë Corbyn report
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Academics arrested as Iran crackdown escalates
Seventy reformist scholars are detained by the authorities, writes John Gill
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Book of the week: Frames of War
Angela McRobbie finds hope for a new politics in an examination of image, others and us
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Quoting Death in Early Modern England
Peter J. Smith deciphers how commemorative texts reflect historical and religious influences
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The Myth of Digital Democracy
There's something about democracy and the internet that brings out the cranks. The ever-swelling internet punditocracy includes an unusually large number of charlatans and chancers, peddling stories...
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The Canon: The Making of the English Working Class. By E.P. Thompson
My task was to identify a book of such influence that the field of cultural studies would be diminished by its absence. While pausing at Raymond Williams' The Long Revolution, Richard Hoggart's The...
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Right-thinking aesthetic
Matthew Reisz talks to Roger Scruton, the UK's leading conservative intellectual, about academia, music, politics and his latest book, Beauty
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Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
Alec Ryrie enters the world of Icelandic farting magic and phallic-Buddhist Rosicrucianism
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Anticapitalism and Culture: Radical Theory and Popular Politics
Jeremy Gilbert got the job that Marx wanted but didn't get. The young Marx had mentors, colleagues and aspiring peers in German universities publishing critiques and polemics on the political culture...
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The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency
Roger Morgan learns of the diplomatic deal-making that made the eurozone a reality
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EDUCATION- Boys and Foreign Language Learning: Real Boys Don't Do LanguagesBy Jo Carr, senior lecturer, School of Cultural and Language Studies in Education, Queensland University of Technology, and...
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The week in higher education
•Wales is to get a Chief Scientific Adviser for the first time in its history, it was announced on 16 June. The decision follows years of lobbying and a review into the position last year.•Bambang...
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University of Southampton - Putting women first
The first annual Women's Day has been held by the University of Southampton, with the aim of recognising the role of women at the university and their experiences as employees. Debra Humphris, pro...
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University of Brighton - Fungus and sexual flip-flops
Fungus may play a role in triggering sex change in some animals, researchers at the University of Brighton believe. Scientists have found 7,000 species of fungus that contain an enzyme that generates...
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University of Winchester - Betterment of assessment
Funding of £200,000 has been granted to the University of Winchester for a three-year research project that aims to improve assessment in higher education. The project - Transforming the Experience...