Art historian Griselda Pollock ‘filling up the half-empty museum’
The Holberg prizewinner describes how she forged a new discipline in response to the ‘theoretically thin’ and ‘historically unimaginative’ art history she was trained in
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Low US youth voting raises concern for free-college push
Emerging consensus on tackling costs may wither if students shun elections, some fear
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Psychopathic behaviour is a hidden problem in higher education
Fear of reprimand is stopping researchers from looking into why workplace bullying is reported more in higher education than in other sectors, say Daniel W. Lund and Nick Forster
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Anger over Massey’s plan to switch teaching locations
Science students may be required to move about 250 miles from current Auckland campus as university attempts to mitigate a contribution shortfall
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What are you reading? – 5 March 2020
A look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Mission modifications
The government may be putting a new emphasis on universities and the role of research, but the attention may also bring new demands for delivery
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The Price of Football, by Kieran Maguire
Stephen Mumford puts his head to the business factors and fantasy finances at the heart of the beautiful game
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Gulag Literature and the Literature of Nazi Camps: An Intercontextual Reading, by Leona Toker
Bryan Cheyette welcomes a comparative study of those persecuted under Stalin and Hitler despite its gaps
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Sisters in Arms: Female Warriors from Antiquity to the New Millennium, by Julie Wheelwright
Book of the week: Emma Rees salutes a wide-ranging study of women who passed as men or found other means to serve in combat
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UCU offers ‘significant concessions’ in pay and pensions disputes
Negotiators ‘within reach of agreements’ as union cuts demands on pay rises and pension contributions, says general secretary
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More Australian universities offer cash help over coronavirus
Australian National University unveils latest assistance package for travel-stymied students
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Coronavirus hampering Chinese recruitment, say US universities
Survey reveals how US universities are managing travel restrictions and test suspensions
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Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis, by Alicia Mireles Christoff
Jane O’Grady is intrigued by an analysis of the psychological depths plumbed by the fiction of George Eliot and Thomas Hardy
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The Idea of the Brain: A History, by Matthew Cobb
Shane O’Mara considers the many different and always inadequate metaphors we have used to analyse our mental functioning