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New gatekeeping needed for real choice and access, says Malcolm Gillies
New gatekeeping needed for real choice and access, says Malcolm Gillies
Female academic leaders tend to get stuck in bureaucratic middle management roles rather than reaching top university posts, a study has found.
Editor: Pericles LewisEdition: FirstPublisher: Cambridge University PressPages: 288Price: £55.00 and £17.99ISBN: 9780521199414 and 36075Literary Modernism is a cosmopolitan phenomenon. Its highlights...
Leon Trotsky remains a compelling and controversial figure for historians, with two major biographies since 2009. Bertrand Patenaude's Stalin's Nemesis: The Exile and Murder of Leon Trotsky is a...
Resourceful academies in the global South and East have much to teach the ‘developed’ North and West, Sir David Watson observes
Will Podmore's riposte, "Hobson's choice" (Letters, 29 April), to my letter regarding the issue of non-voting academics ("Dubious vintage", 22 April), misses the point of the original argument.He...
Scholars' remuneration packages fail to match pay in many other professions. Jack Grove reports
Art chronicles the myriad roles horses have played in our history, but it’s blinkered to see them just as a resource, says Elaine Walker
Asia and Europe up the pace as Harvard tops THE World Reputation Rankings. Jack Grove reports
• Racism is usually blamed on complex factors such as socio-economic background, peer group influence and political propaganda, but one academic study has suggested that rock music also has a case to...
Universities cherish autonomy. When government strings truss them like Christmas turkeys, some might break for freedom
Simon Goldhill warms to the charms of a wacky history tour, despite its simplified viewpoint
For the seventh year in a row, our university failed to win a single award of any kind at the Times Higher Education Awards in London's luxurious Grosvenor House Hotel.Despite entering in a record...
Calls to thin RCUK ranks point to coordinated benefits of slimline solutions. Paul Jump reports
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