Bad Faith: When Religious Belief Undermines Modern Medicine, by Paul A. Offit
Helen Bynum on a doctor who is gently but firmly arguing against those who are harming children’s health through their religion
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What Middletown Read: Print Culture in an American Small City, by Frank Felsenstein and James J. Connolly
Studies of library lending records are overdue, says Faye Hammill
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Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace: Classical Sculpture and Modern Britain, 1854-1936, by Kate Nichols
James Stevens Curl on a well-researched study of the display of and visitor reactions to exhibits
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Sustainable university funding: David Willetts on the next steps
Debate over the RAB charge is misleading. England's higher education funding system is sound and flexible, argues the former universities minister
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World in brief – 18 June 2015
Higher education news from around the globe
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David Willetts interview: ‘What I did was in the interests of young people’
The former universities minister discusses the reforms that reshaped higher education and his first steps into academia
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Campus close-up: ‘It didn’t make sense for Writtle to farm out degree-awarding powers’
For a small, specialist institution, Writtle College has sizeable ambitions
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THE podcast: Steve Waite interview
THE reporter Chris Parr in conversation with the principal of Writtle College
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Life after death: one scholar’s advice on developing a ‘new normal’
Nicole Westmarland shares what she learned about creating a new way of working in academia after losing her spouse
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Threats to universities go unheard amid sound and the fury
A babel of voices are drowning out the many real threats to intellectual freedom, warns Alan Ryan
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Judith Layzer, 1961-2015
A leading expert in how scientific research can best be used to promote environmental causes has died
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Q&A with Daniella Tilbury
The well-travelled scholar boldly goes where no Gibraltarian has gone before
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Row over Nobel prizewinner’s ‘ill-judged’ remarks
Sir Tim Hunt’s comments about ‘girls’ in science provoke online storm
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Illuminating manuscripts for the digital age
A team at the Uppsala University Library is working to crack the code for digitising handwritten text
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Peer reviewers aren’t on the same page a third of time
Study led by Angela Dobele of RMIT finds there is no consensus on the value of a paper in 32 per cent of cases