Hard to think straight with the wolf at the door
People tend to lose the plot when there鈥檚 not enough to go around, Victoria Bateman discovers
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Stellar mother
Margaret Weitekamp applauds a filial tribute to a聽woman who helped get the US off the ground
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Unjust arm of the law
Vicky Conway hails powerful research that lays bare the corrosive effect of unchecked power
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God not dead on campus
Campus is not the secular space imagined by die-hard antagonists, Gerald Pillay observes
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Laurie Taylor
Only the lonely鈥淚n my opinion, both universities are聽far too mealy-mouthed about the聽whole business.鈥漈his was the typically frank response of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to the...
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Doctrinal differences
I am about to begin my 20th聽year of teaching in the UK: 12 years at Lancaster University and now聽in my eighth year at the University of Aberdeen. I聽had taught for years in my native US聽and, when I...
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Campus round-up - 12 September 2013
Source: Science Photo LibraryCold comfortStudents interested in microbiology are set to benefit from an annual joint field trip module with the University of Akureyri, Iceland thanks to a British...
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1941-2013
A respected author and renowned philosopher of US religion, ethics and politics has died
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Appointments - 12 September 2013
University of WestminsterRoland DannreutherRoland Dannreuther, dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Westminster, said he felt an equal mixture of 鈥渆xcitement and...
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News in brief - 12 September 2013
United StatesAlabama State rebukedA US university has lost an appeal against a sexual harassment verdict that ruled in favour of three former employees. The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a 23-...
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Odds and quads - 12 September 2013
The wax model of a dissected head, showing the arteries, tendons and muscles of the face, was used for teaching anatomy in the 19th or early 20th century in place of a real cadaver.These items,...
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News in brief - 12 September 2013
Funding councilNew year, new headThe new chief executive of England鈥檚 funding council, Madeleine Atkins, will take up the post on 1聽January 2014, it has been announced. The Higher Education Funding...
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Grant winners - 12 September 2013
Economic and Social Research CouncilESRC鈥揜GC (Hong Kong) bilateral AwardAward winner: Paul MorrisInstitution: Institute of EducationValue: 拢70,563Hong Kong as a source for education policy in England...
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Headline acts
I enjoyed comparing two vice-chancellors鈥 summer reading material in 鈥淲hat are you reading?鈥 (Books, 5 September). Both reached out to music: Russell Grouper David Eastwood was drawn to Brahms鈥...