Government and Tories ‘colluding’ to keep fees off the agenda
‘Neither party has the bottle’ to debate the issue before the next general election, Labour MP claims. Zoë Corbyn reports
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London Met head quits
V-c relinquishes role with immediate effect, Rebecca Attwood reports
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UUK report on fees sparks accusations of arrogance
Scenarios that include a doubling of tuition costs lead to outcry over vice-chancellors’ ‘fantasising’. John Gill reports
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The Constant Fire: Beyond the Science vs Religion Debate
Celia Deane-Drummond admires the author's passion, but not his philosophy
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Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11
This book is the work of an American political scientist at Rutgers University and is clearly written and mercifully free of jargon. The closest it comes to jargon is its focus on the American "...
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Top 10 academic bestsellers: Blackwell, Portsmouth
1. Foundations Spanish 1, Second Edition by Cathy Holden and Maria del Carmen Gil Ortega. Palgrave Macmillan, £19.99. ISBN 97802302172632. Managing Business Relationships by Ray French. Pearson...
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Book of the week - The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi
Robert Appelbaum savours the genius in a culinary compendium
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The week in books
The Myth of American Exceptionalism by Godfrey Hodgson, associate fellow, Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford. Yale University Press, £16.99, ISBN 9780300125702"The book is...
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Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
Michelle Harvey is fascinated by a historical look at the deployment of insects in battle
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Religion and Revelry in Shakespeare's Festive World
The title of this book alludes to two seminal texts on Shakespeare and festivity, Shakespeare's Festive Comedy by C.L. Barber and Shakespeare's Festive World by Francois Laroque. Phebe Jensen...
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Reframing Social Citizenship
Peter Taylor-Gooby's book is an impressive edifice, but not a stable one. Meticulously planned and plotted though it is, the dry rot of internal contradiction threatens its structure. This book...
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? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Manager's Tale: Stories of Managerial IdentityBy Patrick Reedy, lecturer in organisational behaviour, University of Nottingham. Ashgate, £55.00....
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Look into our eyes
The mind-reading abilities of monkeys, and what they can teach us about human powers of deduction, were discussed at a public lecture at the University of St Andrews. Juan-Carlos Gomez, a psychology...
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London School of Economics - Robbers pick up a penguin
Students have been leaving flowers, messages and even Penguin chocolate biscuits in tribute to a stolen statue. Thieves ripped out the statue of a penguin, which was a gift to the London School of...
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University of Leeds - Parasite link to schizophrenia
A team at the University of Leeds has discovered how a parasite transmitted via cat faeces may trigger the development of schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. The toxoplasmosis parasite, which can...