A challenge to Boris
Keith Burnett urges the new prime minister to use his time in the global spotlight to show that Britain is welcoming to international talent
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Night Raiders: Burglary & the Making of Modern Urban Life in London, 1860-1968, by Eloise Moss
Clive Bloom considers the development of a particularly disturbing form of crime
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How to be a Historian: Scholarly Personae in Historical Studies, 1800-2000, edited by Herman Paul
R.C. Richardson assesses a wide-ranging study of how historians present themselves and are perceived by others
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Marie Borroff, 1923-2019
Tributes paid to a poet and scholar of medieval literature who ‘rendered the world brighter’
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Outrage over professor’s claim that US academy is ‘sweet racket’
Wall Street Journal op-ed on faculty salaries prompts collective fact check from scholars
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Dropout rates in focus at English for-profits as regulator decision day looms
Some alternative providers could lose access to public student loans if OfS judges non-continuation rates too high
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Life beyond the ivory curtain
Three scholars reflect on finding new purpose outside the academy
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Member satisfaction with USS pension scheme declines
Annual report shows increase in value of fund assets, but dispute over future contributions takes toll on contentment
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Interview with Jeffrey C. Stewart
The Pulitzer winner discusses the lack of national alarm over the lives of black communities in the US and how art can help Americans overcome barriers of race
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McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, by Ronald E. Purser
Kathryn Ecclestone considers a bold attempt to take mindfulness to task
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Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education, by Jason Brennan and Phillip Magness
David L. Wheeler is only partly convinced by an attempt to put higher education under the ethical spotlight
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Russell Group students more likely to back contextual admissions
But overall students are split on the policy of making lower grade offers to applicants from disadvantaged backgrounds
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This Life: Why Mortality Makes Us Free, by Martin Hägglund
Book of the week: Joe Moran applauds a bold attempt to demonstrate why it is the finitude of our lives that gives them value