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Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction by Judie Newman

Kate North recommends an analysis of the use of apparently contradictory concepts in selected texts over the past 15 years

To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program 1957-1975 by Kendrick Oliver

Margaret Weitekamp on a historical study of the relationship between religion and spaceflight

For happy students, listen - then act

A responsive attitude and landmark infrastructure projects help to create contentment, our survey shows. Elizabeth Gibney reports

The story behind our figures...

Ben Marks of YouthSight, which carried out the survey for ɫ��ֱ��, explains the reasoning and methodology that created this year’s university rankings

Great expectations – how to bring reality up to scratch

Study costs more, so do students want more? Olga Wojtas hears from universities and student leaders about what can be done to boost satisfaction - from bricks and mortar to increased participation

What you know is important, but so is where you've worked

A university’s links with industry, providing placements and internships, are increasingly important to students and form a key indicator in our survey. David Matthews explores this fast-evolving area

Representation, as well as a good night out, is what matters

A well-managed students’ union is key to creating a happy university - as Victoria Bentata discovers

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What matters most to undergraduates?

To Touch the Face of God: The Sacred, the Profane, and the American Space Program 1957-1975 by Kendrick Oliver

Man has always looked to the heavens.” When I was teaching a space history course at undergraduate level, an inordinate number of students wanted to start their human spaceflight essays with some...

Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction by Judie Newman

In 2002 Martin Amis said: “After a couple of hours at their desks on September 12, 2001, all the writers on earth were reluctantly considering a change of occupation.” Many said that 9/11 could not,...

Mental uncertainty principles

Tristan Bekinschtein recommends a challenge to our notions of consciousness and cognition

On the Edge: The Contested Cultures of English Suburbia by Rupa Huq

This is the end…my beautiful friend…” Jim Morrison’s voice filters through the thin walls of my Travelodge suite as the lorries rumble along the M25 into the dark heart of suburbia.This is going to...

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates by Frans de Waal

Bonobos could teach God a thing or two about morality. If you have heard of these great apes, it is probably because their libidinous nature evokes that of a better-known primate depicted by...

Fresh perspectives on ‘savage’ ground

Neil Rennie on the observers and the observed in global cultural exchanges of the 18th century