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The Trilobite Book: A Visual Journey, by Riccardo Levi-Setti
Euan Clarkson admires an exquisite collection of images of an iconic arthropod’s fossil traces
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Lord Strange's Men and Their Plays, by Lawrence Manley and Sally-Beth MacLean
Peter J. Smith applauds a study of an innovative company of actors and their influence on Elizabethan theatre
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Reading Basquiat: Exploring Ambivalence in American Art, by Jordana Moore Saggese
Tracey Warr on an examination of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s work – his inspirations and his relationship to artistic and ideological debates of the late 20th century
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Renegade Dreams: Living through Injury in Gangland Chicago, by Lawrence Ralph
Dick Hobbs on an ethnographic study exploring the resilience of youths whose lives have been marred by violence
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy, by Francis Fukuyama
Roger Morgan on an exploration of the current state of our political institutions
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UCL network to flag up struggles of junior staff
Group to lobby coalition to highlight plight of well educated but broke early career researchers
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The UK: where world leaders come to learn
British Council claims that one in 10 current world leaders have studied in the UK
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Who is Willetts to advise?
Having first on the floor of the House of Commons described the Higher Education Policy Institute’s analysis of the cost of the government’s policies as “eccentric”, and then conceded to the Business...
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Rhetorical lessons
According to Chris Ormell (“Hanging on your every word”, Letters, 18 September), one of the major disincentives to students listening and reading with full attention is “a massive daily deluge of...
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Might your vice-chancellor be next to go?
In view of the mounting concern about the number of vice-chancellors leaving their posts – vacancies currently exist at Durham, Southampton, Buckingham, Bristol and The Open University – The...
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A simple proposal
Readers sympathetic to Fred Inglis (“Trained obedience”, Features, 28 August) and Marina Warner (“Attempts to ‘gag and silence’ academics are commonplace”, News, 11 September) and their fears for the...
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After the referendum: academics query the future of research funding
Despite the ‘no’ vote, it is still unclear what the setup for Scottish institutions will be
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Indian enrolment continues to fall
Figures show sharp drop in demand from the subcontinent
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It will be ‘tough’ to nail down fees policy by December, Byrne says
Labour ‘will not make promises it can’t afford’, John Morgan hears at the party conference