Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation, by Michael Harris
Tony Mann discovers the charisma of mathematicians
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Between Two Worlds: How the English Became Americans, by Malcolm Gaskill
Donald M. MacRaild on the English colonists’ determination to hold on to their identity in the New World
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Neuroscience for Leadership: Harnessing the Brain Gain Advantage, by Tara Swart, Kitty Chisholm and Paul Brown
A manual for ambitious executives is dangerously close to spreading neuromyths, says Steven Rose
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Enemy in the East: Hitler’s Secret Plans to Invade the Soviet Union, by Rolf-Dieter Müller
Robert Gellately on an examination of the role of the Wehrmacht leadership
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Sex Versus Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein, by John Launer
Janet Sayers admires a detective-like tale of the psychoanalyst and her involvement with Jung and Freud
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Universities find it difficult to grasp China’s dream
Has the Chinese government’s sophisticated message to its higher education sector come at the cost of clarity? asks Mike Gow
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Which? decries ‘unlawful’ terms in small print
A report on university course changes by the consumer watchdog caused a stir this week
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Show that aid to poor works or lose it, says Hefce head
Madeleine Atkins says student opportunity funding ‘will go’ unless government can see a ‘return on investment’
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London Met v-c paid £159K ‘in lieu of notice’ on leaving job early
Malcolm Gillies’ £453K final-year payment may make him last year’s highest paid vice-chancellor
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The great love and lust swindle
Canadian philosopher Clancy Martin tells John Kaag that the liar and the lover are two sides of the same coin
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Colleagues pay tribute to Sir David Watson’s career
Academic’s ‘formidable expertise and knowledge’ and ‘unique voice’ remembered
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Student housing shortages: battle to end close quarter struggles
With the recruitment cap lifting, accommodation is a hot issue
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Teacher training: a missed opportunity
Their lack of protest over reforms means that universities have lost the chance to transform the sector, laments Anthony Kelly
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Trinity Laban: engaging audiences with a visionary zeal
CoLab project is putting a new twist on art forms
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A chance to rethink the current model
Ministers and the higher education community are rightly asking tough questions about quality assurance and the safeguarding of public funding now that private providers are offering degree courses...