If you want to come here and say the earth is flat, you can – v-c
UNSW Sydney leader Ian Jacobs says ߣߣÊÓƵ’s proposed free speech code could prove counterproductive
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Student ethnicity and class data ‘hardly monitored’ in Europe
With no good data, continental European universities cannot monitor if widening access policies are working
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Brexit will harm universities outside the Russell Group – and this matters enormously
Brexit will exacerbate the inequalities that already exist in UK higher education, argue Helen De Cruz and Chon TejedorÂ
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Gender pay gap for UK economists ‘unchanged in 20 years’
Women paid significantly less than men even when they are in the same role, conference hears
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Wall Street Journal/ߣߣÊÓƵ College Rankings 2020 methodology
Ranking of US universities and colleges puts student success and learning at its heart
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American Higher Education Since World War II: A History, by Roger L. Geiger
Book of the week: David Wheeler enjoys a bold overview of how universities in the US have been transformed over three-quarters of a century
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Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought, by Barbara Tversky
Constantine Sandis praises a bold account of how our thought is inextricably bound up with our interactions with the world
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The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal, by Martha C. Nussbaum
Lior Erez is largely impressed by an attempt to adapt the ancient ideals of cosmopolitanism to the challenges of today
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Lost in the blizzard: students of Generation Z
Are today’s students really self-absorbed snowflakes or are lecturers merely experiencing the other side of the intergenerational perspective?
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What are you reading? – 29 August 2019
A fortnightly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Hitler: Only the World Was Enough, by Brendan Simms
Robert Gellately is unconvinced by the emphases in a new interpretation of Hitler’s life and career
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The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality, by Benjamin Kahan
Barry Reay assesses a book charting the complexities of the history of sexuality
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Careers intelligence: how to support international student mental health
Universities need to be able to support the needs of overseas learners, but should not regard them as being completely different from domestic recruits, say experts
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Ann Moyal, 1926-2019
Tributes paid to tireless independent scholar who wrote two outspoken memoirs as well as some classic studies of the history of science
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Interview with Naomi Oreskes
The author of Merchants of Doubt on dealing with climate change deniers, pursuing your passions and the importance of a walk outside, preferably with a dog